Woman Today : A Celebration: Fifty Years of South African Women

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Pub. Date: 2004-07-01
Publisher(s): Kwela Books
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Summary

Charting the 50-year course of Woman's World, the highly influential South African radio program, this eclectic collection of transcribed interviews is drawn from a commemorative series of programs that follows the progress of women in South Africa. Featured are the most prominent women in South African history talking about everything from public leadership to cooking recipes, all in their own words and at the time when they were most important Constituting a who's who of South African woman's history, this book examines the changing gender and racial roles of one of the most socially significant nations of the 21st century.

Table of Contents

Foreword 7(2)
Helen Suzman
Acknowledgements 9(2)
Introduction 11(2)
Her Story: An Overview
13(10)
Women and the Media
23(9)
Women -- Sport and Fitness
32(9)
Women and Their Wellness
41(10)
Half a Century of Baby Care: Phone-in
51(8)
Women and the Arts
59(10)
Women -- Caring for Each Other
69(10)
Women and Their Sexual Selves
79(10)
Women and Communications
89(11)
To Have or Not to Have Children: Phone-in
100(9)
Women and the Struggle
109(14)
Women in Business
123(9)
Women -- Writing and Storytelling
132(11)
Women in Food: With Recipes
143(10)
Women -- Mind, Body and Spirit: Phone-in
153(10)
Women and Leadership
163(11)
Women and the Things They Love
174(9)
Women in Fashion
183(11)
Women in the World
194(11)
Inspiring Women: Phone-in
205(8)
Afterword 213(2)
Patricia de Lille
Who We Were 215(2)
Who's Who 217
Acknowledgements ix
A Colonial Future
1(17)
A Home in a Strange Land
18(17)
Making a Better World
35(17)
People of the Word
52(13)
A Time of Opening
65(17)
Departures and Journeys
82(12)
Finding a Country
94(15)
An Expanding Horizon
109(16)
A Time of Turning
125(13)
A Crowded Portrait Gallery
138(16)
Histories and Politics
154(17)
A History to Live By
171

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