GENDER, SOCIAL LOCATION AND FEMINIST POLITICS IN SOUTH AFRICA

Abstract

Gender oppression is everywhere rooted in a material base and is expressed in socio-cultural traditions and attitudes all of which are supported and perpetuated by an ideology which subordinates women... Patriarchal rights, especially but not only with regard to family, land and the economy, need serious re-examination so that they are not entrenched or reinforced (Statement on the Emancipation of Women in South Africa, issued by the ANC National Executive Committee, May 2 1990).