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Women's Organizations and Democracy in South Africa: Contesting Authority.

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Women's Organizations and Democracy in South Africa: Contesting Authority. Shareen Hassim. University of Wisconsin Press, 2006. 355 pp.

Shireen Hassim analyzes women's political participation in South Africa during a dramatic period of that country's history in Women's Organization and Democracy in South Africa. Relying on extensive archival research, secondary sources, interviews and participant-observation, Hassim focuses on women's organizations and the emergence of the women's movement from approximately 1980-1999. She not only addresses debates about the relationship between women's struggles and broader political struggles, but also the relationship between the contesting ideologies of feminism and nationalism.

The book's structure follows the emergence of the women's movement, and women's organizations with the women's movement, as an important social movement in South Africa. She specifically focuses on organizations such as the African National Congress' (ANC) Women's League,...

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