A World of Their Own: A History of South African Women's Education

by Meghan Healy-Clancy

The politics of black education has long been a key issue in southern African studies, but despite rich debates on the racial and class dimensions of schooling, historians have neglected their distinctive gendered dynamics. A World of Their Own is the first book to explore the meanings of black women's education in the making of modern South Africa. Its lens is a social history of the first high school for black South African women, Inanda...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081393608X
• ISBN13: 9780813936086
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"