{"id":13565,"date":"2020-02-14T10:21:02","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T15:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/?p=13565"},"modified":"2026-09-08T16:53:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T20:53:14","slug":"shireen-hassim-releases-new-book-on-the-life-of-fatima-meer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/2020\/shireen-hassim-releases-new-book-on-the-life-of-fatima-meer\/","title":{"rendered":"Shireen Hassim Releases New Book on the Life of Fatima Meer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Shireen Hassim Releases New Book on the Life of Fatima Meer\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Feisty and formidable, Fatima Meer, who died in 2010 at age 81, was a trailblazing scholar and anti-apartheid activist with a lot to say. That South African society didn\u2019t always know quite how to deal with her can be gleaned from two of the \u201cfirsts\u201d she achieved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She was the first woman in South Africa banned for her political activities, in 1954, restricting her from attending gatherings and making public statements, among various prohibitions. (Meer regularly flouted the ban and two subsequent orders.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then, when the two-year ban lifted, she became the first non-white woman appointed at a \u201cwhite\u201d university, as lecturer in sociology at the University of Natal, where she encountered various forms of racist and sexist discrimination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/story\/shireen-hassim-voices-of-liberation\/?utm_source=homepage&amp;utm_medium=spotlight\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feisty and formidable, Fatima Meer, who died in 2010 at age 81, was a trailblazing scholar and anti-apartheid activist with a lot to say. That South African society didn\u2019t always know quite how to deal with her can be gleaned from two of the \u201cfirsts\u201d she achieved. She was the first woman in South Africa [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13567,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"https:\/\/cdn.carleton.ca\/truth\/images\/1919\/article-print.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13565"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13568,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13565\/revisions\/13568"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}