On Their Own: Women, Urbanization, and the Right to the City in South Africa 9780773597587

Cutting edge research on the contradictions of race, class, and gender in post-apartheid urban South Africa. Cutting e

154 51 3MB

English Pages [255] Year 2015

On Their Own: Women, Urbanization, and the Right to the City in South Africa
9780773597587

Author / Uploaded
Allison Goebel

Table of contents :
Cover
Contents
Figures, Tables, and Boxes
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Women, Housing, and Coming to the City
2 Housing, Urban Conditions, Health, and Well-Being in the “New South Africa”
3 Assessing the State’s Response: Housing Policy and Female Headed Households
4 Rights, Welfare, and Citizenship
5 “I don’t want any man in my life, I have no time for them”: Love, Gender Relations, and the “Crisis of Masculinity”
6 Protest, Governance, and the Ballot Box: Gender, Generation, and Race
7 Conclusions: Women and the Right to the City
Notes
References
Index
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
R
S
T
U
V
W
Y
Z

Polecaj historie

On Their Own : Women, Urbanization, and the Right to the City in South Africa [1 ed.] 9780773597587, 9780773545892

South Africa, the most urbanized country on the African continent, displays some of the highest levels of socio-economic

145 40 3MB Read more

Village Mothers, City Daughters: Women and Urbanization in Sarawak 9789812305725

This unique volume draws together a compelling collection of studies on the diverse and transformatory experiences of wo

191 33 755KB Read more

Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right 9781620972267, 1620972263

In Strangers in Their Own Land, the renowned sociologist Arlie Hochschild embarks on a thought-provoking journey from he

406 21 458KB Read more

Women on Their Own: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Being Single 9780813544014

Despite what would seem some apparent likenesses, single men and single women are perceived in very different ways. Bach

308 61 2MB Read more

City, Urban Transformation and the Right to the City

This article investigates the relationship between transformation of cities and the right to the city. To be able to do this, the problems that are created by contemporary urbanization such as social exclusion, poverty and environmental degradation are discussed in the first part. After that, with a special focus on the period starting with industrial revolution up until today, the article explains economic and political motivations behind urban transformation. This part emphasizes how urban change under different forms of capitalism creates and deepens social inequalities in cities. Final part of this article will be a discussion on the right to the city, and its relation to these urban issues. JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY URBAN AFFAIRS (2020), 4(1), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.25034/ijcua.2020.v4n1-1

0 0 1MB Read more

Ideologies and Infrastructures of Religious Urbanization in Africa: Remaking the City 9781350152120, 9781350152144, 9781350152137

How does development intersect with religious urbanization to shape contemporary African cityscapes? To answer this ques

234 47 27MB Read more

Women and the City, Women in the City: A Gendered Perspective on Ottoman Urban History 9781782384120

An attempt to reveal, recover and reconsider the roles, positions, and actions of Ottoman women, this volume reconsiders

171 84 1MB Read more

Women, Activism and Apartheid South Africa

227 100 704KB Read more

Data Justice and the Right to the City 9781474492973

Explores of social justice, citizenship, and community in the context of data-driven urbanism Investigates critical issu

205 42 3MB Read more

Local Self-Government and the Right to the City 9780773597280

A timely exploration of the untapped potential for local democracy. A timely exploration of the untapped potential for

177 10 3MB Read more