WOMEN'S ORGANIZATIONS AND DEMOCRACY IN SOUTH AFRICA, contesting authority

355pp., paperback, First SA Edition, Pietermaritzburg, 2006

First published in the USA in 2006.

Shireen Hassim on the gendered nature of liberation and regime change and how women's political organizations both shaped and were shaped by the broader democratic movement.

Shireen Hassim is Professor in the Department of Political Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand, based at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER). She is the author of Fatima Meer, voices of liberation (2019).