Respectable Mothers, Tough Men and Good Daughters
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Respectable Mothers, Tough Men and Good Daughters

Producing persons in Manenberg township South Africa

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Respectable Mothers, Tough Men and Good Daughters

Producing persons in Manenberg township South Africa

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The book examines how men and women in Manenberg township, on Cape Towns inner periphery, manoeuvre to re-define themselves as gendered persons deserving of dignity, through the quotidian practices of ordentlikheid or respectability. Salo shows how reclamation of dignity is an intergenerational and gendered process that is messy and uneven, involves the expression of often-brutal physical and social exclusion of individuals through embodied and social violence. Theoretically, the narrative makes visible the careful, painstaking processes of place making and claiming dignity by men and women in a place represented as a wasteland in the dominant discourse of grand apartheid and in the contemporary neo-liberal turn in Cape Town.

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Publisher
Langaa RPCIG
Year
2018
ISBN
9789956550388
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Cultural & Social Anthropology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title page
  3. Copyright page
  4. Praise for Elain Salo and for this Book
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Preface
  8. Chapter 1 - Manenberg – An In-between Place with In-between People
  9. Chapter 2 - Making Race, Making Space: Locating Coloureds in South African History and Urban Planning
  10. Chapter 3 - Clearing the Wilderness: Defining Identity from Within
  11. Chapter 4 - Making Mothers, Producing Persons: The Gendered Ideology of Orality and Space in the Local Community
  12. Chapter 5 - Mans is ma soe: Men, Moeders and Ideologies of Masculinity
  13. Chapter 6 - Good Daughters: Incorporating young women into respectable personhood
  14. Chapter 7 - Conclusion
  15. Bibliography
  16. Epilogue - A Tribute: Elaine Rosa Salo (1962-2016)
  17. Back cover