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Social SciencesDevelopment StudiesGender StudiesFeminist TheoryLand LawWomen's StudiesApartheid In Southern AfricaFeminism In Postcolonial ContextsGender EqualityLand ReformSouthern African HistoryWomen's Political RightsApartheid Spatial LegaciesDemocratic ProcessesGendered Land AccessGendered Land TenureLand PoliticsPostcolonial Gender RelationsWomen's Collective ActionWomen’s Land Rights
The issue of land lies at the heart of South Africa's democratic transformation, but the extremity of apartheid's racial legacy is in danger of obscuring a no less pervasive oppression: that of women. This volume brings together recent research on women by the National Land Committee of South Africa. What emerges is a sharp sense of transition and crisis - and a pressing need for women's organization, to ensure that development and legislation are informed by the priorities of women, and that South Africa's land question is treated not least as a problem of gender transformation.