Respectable Mothers, Tough Men and Good Daughters : Producing persons in Manenberg township South Africa /

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The book examines how men and women in Manenberg township, on Cape Town's inner periphery, manoeuvre to re-define themselves as gendered persons deserving of dignity, through the quotidian practices of ordentlikheid or respectability. Salo shows how reclamation of dignity is an intergenerationa...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Salo, Elaine R. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2018
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Identity (Psychology) > South Africa > Cape Town.
Manenberg (Cape Town, South Africa) > Social life and customs.
Manenberg (Cape Town, South Africa) > Social conditions.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Manenberg - an in-between place with in-between people
  • Making race, making space : locating coloureds in South African history and urban planning
  • Clearing the wilderness : defining identity from within
  • Making mothers, producing persons : the gendered ideology of orality and space in the local community
  • Mans is ma soe : men, moeders and ideologies of masculinity
  • Good daughters : Incorporating young women into respectable personhood
  • Taxi queens and glamorous gangsters : emerging changes in Rio Street
  • Epilogue : a tribute : Elaine Rosa Salo (1962-2016) / Kelly Gillespie.

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