When Ada is compromised and finds she is expecting a mixed-race child, she flees, determined to spare Cathleen the knowledge of her betrayal. Under Cathleen’s teaching, Ada grows into an accomplished pianist, and a reader who cannot resist turning the pages of Cathleen’s diary, discovering the secrets she sought to hide.
Isolated and estranged, she finds solace in the friendship of her housemaid’s daughter, Ada. Coetzee), Zoë Wicomb, Yvonne Vera, and Bessie Head alongside contemporary postcolonial feminist theories, melding traditional beliefs with materialist views to reconsider the future of reproductive health matters in southern Africa.ĭuty and love collide in a remote town on the arid plains of central South Africa.Ĭathleen Harrington leaves Ireland in 1919 to travel to South Africa and marry the fiancé she has not seen for 5 years. This study situates abortion narratives by Wilma Stockenström (translated by J.
Through close readings of both literal gestation in the selected texts and the metaphorical reproduction of the post/colonial nation, this study advances the concept of reproductive agency, creating a range of alternatives to tropes such as those of 'the Mother Country', 'Mother Africa', or 'the birth of a nation'. By illuminating the different eras and arenas of women’s participation, this book shows the broadness of the armed struggle against apartheid as a historical truth and as a matter of gender equality and justice for an inclusive and more democratic future.Īvailable: Van Schaik, Clarkes books, UKZN Press, The Forge, Pro Visions bookstoreįocusing on texts from the late 1970s to the 1990s which document both changing attitudes to terminations of pregnancy and dramatic environmental, medical, and socio-political developments during southern Africa's liberation struggles, this book examines how four writers from Botswana, South Africa, and Zimbabwe address the ethics of abortion and reproductive choice.
Centring women’s agency, commitment, beliefs and actions, it details the various ways in which women came to be politicised and the decisions and circumstances that led them to join the armed struggle inside South Africa and in exile. It is based on 40 life histories of women who fought with the rural-based Poqo, the military wing of the Pan Africanist Congress the exile-based uMkhonto we Sizwe, the military wing of the African National Congress and the township-based self-defence units. Guerrillas and Combative Mothers offers a first-hand account of women's participation in the armed struggle against apartheid from 1961 to 1994 and their lives in a democratic South Africa.
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