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Women Fighting Apartheid: Federation of South African Women (Fedsaw) and the Black Sash, 1952-1962

by Monica G. Fernandes
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781041032069
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • Publisher Imprint: Routledge
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 216
  • Original Price: GBP 171.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 481 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): World

Drawing on new interviews and previously underused archival material, this book explores women's anti-apartheid activism in South Africa and within broader transnational networks from 1952 to 1962 through a comparison of the Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW) and the Black Sash.

Despite differing ideologies, racial compositions, and protest strategies, both organisations played decisive roles in contesting apartheid and expanding political space for women within a male-dominated resistance movement. FEDSAW engaged deliberately with international organisations such as the Women's International Democratic Federation and the World Peace Council, while the Black Sash became embedded in global networks such as the International Alliance of Women more ambiguously through class privilege and international visibility. By foregrounding women's political agency and international networks and examining key events including the 1956 Women's March and the intensification of apartheid repression following the Treason Trial, the book reshapes how anti-apartheid activism is understood within both national and global contexts.

This interdisciplinary volume will be of interest to scholars, undergraduate and postgraduate students working in South African history, women's and gender history, African studies, political history, and transnational activism. It will also be useful to general readers seeking works on apartheid, women's political activism, and global solidarity movements.

Monica G. Fernandes is an independent scholar whose research interests include South African women's history, transnationalism, and anti-apartheid activism. Her most recent published work examines Sophia Williams, one of the four leaders of the Federation of South African Women's historic 1956 march to the Union Buildings in Pretoria.

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