Opening Pandora's Box: Reflections on 'Whiteness' in the South African Women's Movement

Holland-Muter, Susan

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“…Both the harming and the harmony of queers are integrally linked to heteropatriarchal, racist and capitalist supremacies (see Holland-Muter, 2012). Complicities with these ruling orders are not outside of queer identity and politics, and current harm maps onto existing patterns of inclusion and exclusion within queer community contexts.…”

Section: Queer Harmony Queer Harmmentioning

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Queer at 25: A Critical Perspective on Queerness, Politics and Futures

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2021

Journal of Asian and African Studies

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With a focus on contemporary South Africa, and through the lens of queer identity and politics, the article critiques the limitations and possibilities for queerness and its futures in post-apartheid South Africa. From the advent of constitutional democracy and its ushering in of human rights, the article analyses developments in the politics of sexuality in the context of enduring systems of violence, rooted in colonial and apartheid histories. Discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people – at the intersection with other forms of discrimination – has emerged as a focal point for political resistances in the post-apartheid period. These resistances are interrogated, including the paradoxes of rights struggles that they expose, and the contradictions between formal equality gains and present queer realities that they call attention to. With an emphasis on enduring inequalities within post-apartheid society, and on the racialisation of violence against queerness, the article explores various political formations of and for queer freedom. In navigating these dynamics of inequality and difference, the article urges a radical politics – both for relating as equals, and against the violent ends of othering.

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Section: Queer Harmony Queer Harmmentioning

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Queer at 25: A Critical Perspective on Queerness, Politics and Futures

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2021

Journal of Asian and African Studies

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“…Aan die ander kant van die spektrum is die 'arm, plattelandse vrou' wat vir dekades verskeie vorme van onderdrukking ervaar het, naamlik dié van ras, klas en geslag (Holland-Muter, 1995;Hargreaves, 1997).…”

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Athena Nike was geen Suid-Afrikaanse godin nie : die mite en realiteit van geslagsgelyke sport

Burnett¹

2001

SA J. Res. Sp.

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The myth and reality of women's positioning in elite sport poses unique challenges to feminist enquiry and feminists' actions for change. The aim of this paper is to meet this challenge by offering an overview of feminist paradigms and praxis as they relate to South African elite sporting practices and underlying issues. By utilizing different feminist frameworks and practices such as the liberal, radical, socialist and postmodern paradigms, the differential reality of women's oppression in competitive sport is discussed. The marginalization of women and 'their sport' is discussed against the backdrop of poverty, capitalist market realities, patriarchal structures, hegemonic ideology, socialization practices, biased media coverage and unequal funding. Other categories of oppression such as class and race interplay to illuminate a diverse and unequal picture of such marginalization. The tentative nature of this paper serves to contextualize and explore the possibilities of feminist understanding and direct praxis in addressing South African women's quest for equality in the sphere of competitive sport.

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“…and its early assumptions of a unitary womanhood, and to foreground the complex enmeshment of gender with other forms of social identity and power within post-colonial contexts (see for example, Hendricks & Lewis, 1994;Kemp, Madlala, Moodley, & Salo, 1995;Holland-Muter, 1995;Abrahams, 2002). Key is the understanding that while apartheid reflected and served to entrench racial capitalism, it was also a system of patriarchy founded on gender injustice and (white) male privilege.…”

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Narrating Gender and Sex in and through Apartheid Divides

Shefer

2010

South African Journal of Psychology

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In this article I reflect on the way in which racist practices intersect with gender as this emerges in narratives on living through apartheid, from a group of academics in contemporary South Africa. A wide range of literature has explored the complex intersections of 'race', gender, class and other forms of difference and power inequality through the history of South Africa before, during and after apartheid. The continued intersection of gender with racist practices and other forms of inequality is more than evident in post-apartheid South Africa and reflected in multiple contexts. While a number of stories of women and their experiences of the violent forms of the intersection of gendered apartheid through rape and abuse have been documented by the TRC and other forms of interrogation, the more 'normal' stories of how racist and gendered practices played themselves out in patriarchal apartheid South Africa are arguably not widely documented other than in theoretical terms. A narrative analysis located within a broad discourse analytic framework is utilised here, which foregrounds experiences in the narratives that reflect broader ideologies on 'race', class, culture, gender and sexuality and their enmeshment with each other that were salient in apartheid South Africa and arguably are still of relevance today. I explore some of the multiple and complex ways, many of them not new to us, in which normative gender roles and gender power relations, and sexual and intimate practices intersect with racialised discourse and racist practices in home, work and public spaces through the stories that participants tell.

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Opening Pandora's Box: Reflections on 'Whiteness' in the South African Women's Movement

Cited by 8 publications

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Queer at 25: A Critical Perspective on Queerness, Politics and Futures

Queer at 25: A Critical Perspective on Queerness, Politics and Futures

Athena Nike was geen Suid-Afrikaanse godin nie : die mite en realiteit van geslagsgelyke sport

Narrating Gender and Sex in and through Apartheid Divides

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