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Join us on Wednesday November 3, as Emily Bridger talks about her latest Book – Young Women against Apartheid: Gender, Youth and South Africa\u2019s Liberation Struggle<\/em><\/p>\n

While there have been many books on South Africa\u2019s liberation struggle during the 1980s and early 1990s, the story of the involvement of African girls and young women has been all but missing. This book tells their story, analysing what life was like for African girls under apartheid, why some chose to join the struggle, and how they navigated the benefits and pitfalls of political activism. These were women who, as teenagers and secondary school students, made an unconventional choice to join student organizations, engage in public protest, and take up arms against the state. They did so against their parents\u2019 wishes and in contravention of societal norms that confined girls to the home and made township streets dangerous places for female students. They participated in both non-violent and violent forms of political action, including attending marches and rallies, throwing stones or petrol bombs at police, and punishing suspected informers and other offenders, and even joining underground guerrilla armies. Thousands of these young women were eventually detained, interrogated, and tortured by the apartheid state. At the heart of this book lie the life histories of the female comrades themselves, who in interviews construct themselves as decisive actors in South Africa\u2019s liberation struggle.<\/p>\n

Primarily a work of oral history, this book is not only concerned with what female comrades did, but equally with how these women remember and narrate their time as activists: how they reconstruct their pasts; relate their personal experiences to collective histories of the struggle; and insert themselves into a historical narrative from which they have been excluded. Through exploring these women\u2019s memories, this book serves as an important corrective to South Africa\u2019s male-centric literature on violence, and provides a new gendered perspective on the wider histories of township politics, activism, and conflict.<\/p>\n

Speaker:<\/strong>\u00a0Emily Bridger, Senior Lecturer in Global and Imperial History, University of Exeter. A social and cultural historian of modern South Africa, her work has been published in the Journal of Southern African Studies, Journal of World History, and Gender & History.<\/p>\n

Respondents:<\/strong>\u00a0Rachel Sandwell and Shireen Hassim<\/p>\n

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