In this Book
- Respectable Mothers, Tough Men and Good Daughters: Producing persons in Manenberg township South Africa
- Book
- 2018
- Published by: LANGAA RPCIG
summary
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 intergenerational and gendered process that is messy and uneven, involves the expression of often-brutal physical and social exclusion of individuals through embodied and social violence. Theoretically, the narrative makes visible the careful, painstaking processes of place making and claiming dignity by men and women in a place represented as a wasteland in the dominant discourse of grand apartheid and in the contemporary neo-liberal turn in Cape Town.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgements
- p. ix
- Preface
- Chapter 7 - Conclusion
- pp. 245-274
- Bibliography
- pp. 275-282
Additional Information
ISBN
9789956550388
Related ISBN(s)
9789956550265
MARC Record
OCLC
1061302426
Pages
318
Launched on MUSE
2018-11-08
Language
English
Open Access
No