On Their Own : Women, Urbanization, and the Right to the City in South Africa.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (255 pages)
- McGill-Queen's Studies in Urban Governance Series ; v.3 .
- McGill-Queen's Studies in Urban Governance Series .
Cover -- Contents -- Figures, Tables, and Boxes -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Women, Housing, and Coming to the City -- 2 Housing, Urban Conditions, Health, and Well-Being in the "New South Africa" -- 3 Assessing the State's Response: Housing Policy and Female Headed Households -- 4 Rights, Welfare, and Citizenship -- 5 "I don't want any man in my life, I have no time for them": Love, Gender Relations, and the "Crisis of Masculinity" -- 6 Protest, Governance, and the Ballot Box: Gender, Generation, and Race -- 7 Conclusions: Women and the Right to the City -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Cutting edge research on the contradictions of race, class, and gender in post-apartheid urban South Africa.