The ANC Women's League: Sex, Gender and Politics

By Shireen Hassim

First formed in the early twentieth century, the ANC Women's League has grown into a leading organization in the women's movement in South Africa. The league has been at the forefront of the nation's century-long transition from an authoritarian state to a democracy that espouses gender equality as a core constitutional value. It has, indeed, always regarded itself as the women's movement, frequently asserting its primacy as a vanguard organization and as the only legitimate voice of the women of South Africa. But, as this deeply insightful book shows, the history of the league is a more complicated affair-it was neither the only women's organization in the political field nor an easy ally for South African feminism.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821421565
• ISBN13: 9780821421567
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 4.4" x 7.0"