Domestic Democracy: At Home in South Africa

ISBN-13: 9780415649087 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 296 str.

Jennifer Fish

Opis

This study examines the relationship between social inequality and change in the newly democratic South Africa through the lens of paid domestic labour. The interviews with workers, employers, politicians and activists, offer diverse perspectives on the race, glass and gender divides within South Africa.

Spis treści

Chapter One. South Africa in Transition
Chapter Two. The Household as a Political Space
Chapter Three. Weaving Content, Context and Self: The Methodological Journey
Chapter Four. Resisted Transitions: The Social Landscape of Domestic Work
Chapter Five. Intersections at Play: Complexities of Gender Location
Chapter Six. Women Won't Be Free Until Domestic Workers are Free!
Chapter Seven. Bringing Democracy Home

O autorze

As a professor of sociology and Chair of Women's Studies at Warren Wilson College, her teaching and research interests are centered in gender, globalization, social inequality and feminist methodology. For the past ten years, her work has focused on gender and human rights in South Africa's national transformation.