This book investigates how customary practices in South Africa have led to negotiation and contestation over human rights, gender and generational power.
Drawing on a range of original empirical studies, this book provides important new insights into the realities of regulating personal relationships in complex social fields in which customary practices are negotiated. This book not only adds to a fuller understanding of how customary practices are experienced in contemporary South Africa, but it also contributes to a large discussion about the experiences, impact and ongoing negotiations around changing structures of gender and generational power and rights in contemporary South Africa.
It will be of interest to researchers across the fields of sociology, family/customary law, gender, social policy and African Studies.
Author(s): Elena Moore
Series: Routledge Contemporary South Africa
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 206
City: London
Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of contributors
Chapter 1 Generation, gender and negotiating custom in South Africa
Chapter 2 Lobolo and the making of men
Chapter 3 Very long engagements: The persistent authority of bridewealth in a post-apartheid South African community
Chapter 4 Inhlawulo, Kin and Custom: Young men negotiating fatherhood and respectable masculinity
Chapter 5 Negotiating sisterarchy within polygynous marriages
Chapter 6 Women’s historical recollections of familial power, ukuthwala marriage and sexual violence
Chapter 7 The power of state law: Female initiation, consent and generational entanglements
Chapter 8 Negotiation of inheritance rights by widows: A case study in rural South Africa
Chapter 9 Resisting for one and all: Gender and generations amidst guns in rural KwaZulu-Natal
Glossary and Notes
Index
