History of Women’s Struggle in South Africa Collection

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New tactics in the revolt

FEDSAW anti-pass flyer

Now You Have Touched the Women - African Women`s Resistance to the Pass Laws in South Africa 1950-1960 by Elizabeth S. Schmidt

Women in the apartheid society by Fatima Meer

Year of women of South Africa by E.S. Reddy

Introduction - My Spirit Is Not Banned by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner

The ANC and the Women’s League

The fight against passes continues

My Spirit Is Not Banned - PART 4 by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner

Chapter 7. An Afrikaner Working Mother

Chapter 4. From The Poverty of the Platteland to the Slums of the City: Farm Girls Turned Into Factory Hands

2. Potchefstroom: A Fighting Location

Women Play A Leading Role

Desirable or undesirable Basotho women?' Liquor, prostitution and the migration of Basotho women to the Rand, 1920-1945' by P. L. Bonner

The women's suffrage movement: The politics of gender race and class by Cheryl Walker

Women and Gender in Southern Africa to 1945 edited by Cherryl Walker

Women under indentured labour in colonial Natal, 1860-1911 by Jo Beall

Man-made women: Gender, class and the ideology of the volksmoeder by Elsabe Brink

Devout domesticity? A century of African women's Christianity in South Africa by Deborah Gaitskell

Women in the ANC-led underground by Raymond Suttner

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Woman’s Day by SPEAK, South Africa

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Will There Be Lobola In A Post-apartheid Society? by SPEAK, Johannesburg

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Women’s Liberation Must Be Part Of A New South Africa by SPEAK, March 1990, Johannesburg

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The Women’s Charter by SPEAK, Johannesburg

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Fighting Sexism In The Church by SPEAK, Johannesburg

Newspaper clippings

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