Sex in Transition: Remaking Gender and Race in South Africa

Acknowledgments

vii Acknowledgments This book has developed over fifteen years and was a collective labor in every way. Without many people in South Africa, this work simply would not have been possible. Midi Achmat, Theresa Raizenberg, Bass John Khumalo, Conny Mchunu, Phumla Masuku, Donna van der Walt, Michelle Asburner, Barbara Rass, Dawie Nel, Juan Nel, Flo Belvedere, and Prudence Mabele opened their homes to me and allowed me to become part of their lives. Others in South Africa who went out of their way time and time again to offer assistance include Zackie Achmat, Pieter Dirk-Uys, Walter Dominique-Dunn, Sally Gross, Simone Heradien, Evert Knoesen, Premesh Lalu, Jack Lewis, Zanele Muholi, Tebogo Nkoana, Sophie Oldfield , Yvonne Shapiro, Carrie Shelver, Funeka Soldaat, and Liesl Theron. Spending time with and in organizations, groups, and workplaces taught me more than I can measure and allowed me to be part of meaningful actions. Thank you to members of the Treatment Action Campaign, AIDS Law Project, Association of Bisexuals, Gays, and Lesbians (ABIGALE), Umanyano, Gender DynamiX, Behind the Mask, Forum for the Empowerment of Women, FreeGender, Hope and Unity Metropolitan Community Church (HUMCC), Sistahs Kopinang, Gays and Lesbians of the Witwatersrand (GLOW), Triangle Project, Sex Workers Education and Advocacy Taskforce (SWEAT), National Coalition for Gay and Lesbian Equality/Equality Project, Gay and Lesbian Legal Advice Center (GLLAC), International Gay and Lesbian Association (ILGA)–Africa, Womyn, Pride Committee, Gay and Lesbian Organization of Pretoria (GLOP)/OUT, Uthingo, Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Idol Pictures, The Glitter Sisters, The Brunswick Follies, Mince, Centre for the Book, Rape Crisis–Cape Town, and United Sanctuary for our conversations and collaborations over the past fifteen years. viii / Acknowledgments Financial support for early stages of this research came from the University of Minnesota Graduate School in the form of a Graduate School Fellowship, President’s International Predissertation Fellowship, Grant for Research Abroad, Doctoral Dissertation Special Grant, Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, and Graduate Research Partnership Program Fellowship (with Richa Nagar), as well as from funding provided by the Anthropology Department, the Center for Advanced Feminist Studies, and the Schochet Center. The MacArthur Interdisciplinary Program on Social Change, Sustainability, and Justice/Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change supported this work financially, as well as serving as my intellectual home; within this program, thanks go especially to Allen Isaacman, as well as Karen Brown, Bud Duvall, Mary Gervais, Dave Henrikson, Jim Johnson, Linda Littrell, and Claudia Shores Skue and to the faculty who dedicated their time to mentoring MacArthur scholars. I am grateful to participants in the MacArthur Gender Consortium for providing invaluable feedback and helping me think through these chapters at many stages, particularly Lisa Disch, Jennifer Pierce, Richa Nagar, Karen Brown Thompson, Amy Kaminsky, Libby Lunstrum, Hokulani Aikau, Leila Harris, Keiko Inoue, Tina Chen, Sally Kenney, and the late Susan Geiger. Feminist intellectual community at the University of Minnesota based in the department of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies was also invaluable, and I’m especially grateful for the support of my co-advisors, Amy Kaminsky and Richa Nagar, as well as Naomi Scheman, Helen Longino, Jigna Desai, Jacquelyn Zita, Janie Jurgens, and Myrna Klitzke. Other mentors who have supported me over many years include Kathleen Barlow and the late Janet Spector. A Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship from Barnard College also supported my research and writing, based in the Women’s Studies Department . During years spent in New York, I was immensely appreciative of the engagement of Chi-ming Yang, Chris Cynn, Janet Jackobsen, Rebecca Jordan-Young, Alison Wylie, Elizabeth Bernstein, Maxine Weingrau, Elizabeth Castelli, Natalie Kampen, and Lila Abu-Lughod. Support from the University of Washington in the form of a Royalty Research Fellowship, as part of the Simpson Center’s Society of Scholars, and from my home department of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies helped me to complete this work. I owe a particular debt of gratitude to colleagues at the University of Washington, including Rebecca Aanarud, David Allen, Jerry Baldasty, Miriam Bartha, Clare Bright, Jeanette Bushnell, Acknowledgments / ix Rachel Chapman, David Domke, Angela Ginorio, Michelle Habell-Pallán, Gillian Harkins, Danny Hoffman, Judy Howard, Ralina Joseph, Nancy Kenney, Kari Lerum, Shaun Lopez, Priti Ramamurthy, Luana Ross, Lynn Thomas, Shirley Yee, Sasha Su-Ling Welland, and Kathleen Woodward. Assistance in the archival and technical research for this book came in varied locales. Graeme Reid, Ruth Morgan, Anthony Manion, and Busi Khwesa of the Gay and Lesbian Archives/Gay...