‘Cocky’ Hahn and the ‘Black Venus’: The Making of a Native Commissioner in South West Africa, 1915–46

Hayes, Patricia

doi:10.1111/j.1468-0424.1996.tb00063.x

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“…We do not know what she thought of it. But she was undoubtedly affected by the emerging cultural discourse on gender reinforced through alliances between officials and the male elite, who in their turn drew selectively on cultural precedents concerning gender norms, as Patricia Hayes argues (Hayes, 1996).…”

Section: Gender and Nobilitymentioning

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“Let Me Come to Tell You”: Loide Shikongo, the King, and Poetic License in Colonial Ovamboland

Becker¹

2005

History and Anthropology

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Section: Gender and Nobilitymentioning

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“Let Me Come to Tell You”: Loide Shikongo, the King, and Poetic License in Colonial Ovamboland

Becker¹

2005

History and Anthropology

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“…Rassool and Hayes describe their first encounter with this image during research on a native commissioner who served in Namibia from 1915 to 1947. "In 'Cocky' Hahn's reasonably coherent photo graph collection, among his studio shots of Prime Minister Jan Smuts at the United Nations in New York to be precise, an incongruous and disturbing image fluttered out" (Rassool and Hayes 2002, 121-22; see also Hayes 1996). They document their effort to answer the questions this image raised for them, uncovering details of /Khanako's life and juxtaposing this distressing image with photos of her strong and confident leadership.…”

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Envisioning African Intersex

2023

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In 2009, South African Caster Semenya won the 800-meter event at the World Championships in Athletics in track and field. But instead of celebrating her victory, Semenya faced accusations that her body was "too masculine" for her to compete in women's sport. Sporting authorities, doctors, and the media claimed that Semenya was intersex. Over the following de cade, she was subjected to international scrutiny: her body was photographed, she endured explorations of her reproductive organs, and her chromosomes and hormones were evaluated to determine her eligibility to compete in women's sport. Decisions about the "truth" of her gender changed again and again over the following de cade, as supposed experts fought over the par ameters of womanhood and the course of her life. Now with two Olympic gold medals to her name, Semenya continues to contest regulations that currently bar her from her sport. The latest decisions of the International Olympic Organ izing Committee prohibit Semenya from competing in the 800-meter event unless she undertakes surgery or pharmaceutically alters her natu ral testosterone levels (an intervention that previously made her physically ill). Recent headlines indicate the global importance of these conversations, Introduction. Pathologizing Gender Binaries Intersex Images and Citational Chains

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“…39 Hayes shows that, in former Ovamboland, the Christian missions, the commissioner and the chiefs collaborated to impose controls regarding women's place as located in the rural home. 40 This collaboration could either prevent female mobility into the Police Zone or aid in women's repatriation to the north via guided escorts. 41 Women without passes in the Police Zone could face charges and get fined, imprisoned and repatriated.…”

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Continuity and Change in Gender Relations within the Contract Labour System in Kavango, Namibia, 1925–1972

Likuwa

2021

Journal of Southern African Studies

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The gendered historical investigation of migrant labour in Namibia (and southern Africa more broadly) has rightly considered the ways in which women left behind in the sending areas were obliged to take on additional agricultural duties in the absence of men. This has been viewed by some scholars as a form of material exploitation of women and a potential subsidy to white employers in these settler colonial spheres. While there is some validity to these claims, the relationship between the sending areas and the work site was not simply a material one, and contract/migrant labour recruiting systems entered spaces with existing gendered cultural repertoires concerning how to deal with absent men. The significance of these cultural frameworks is worthy of additional empirical, comparative and theoretical investigation. Through the use of oral interviews supplemented by archival materials, this article discusses these issues in the context of Kavango, north-eastern Namibia, which, for much of the 20th century, was a major source of contract labourers to the colonial economy in what was then South West Africa. The article argues that colonialism and labour recruiting schemes built upon and transformed existing precolonial cultural frameworks such as 'the people's child', women's observance of taboos and a local conception of 'home'. This article further posits that the maintenance of this migrant labour system was dependent upon its integration into local worldviews.

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‘Cocky’ Hahn and the ‘Black Venus’: The Making of a Native Commissioner in South West Africa, 1915–46

Cited by 27 publications

References 8 publications

“Let Me Come to Tell You”: Loide Shikongo, the King, and Poetic License in Colonial Ovamboland

“Let Me Come to Tell You”: Loide Shikongo, the King, and Poetic License in Colonial Ovamboland

Envisioning African Intersex

Continuity and Change in Gender Relations within the Contract Labour System in Kavango, Namibia, 1925–1972

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