TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction: Location, Method, Meaning Chapter One: Mapping Cape Town’s Historical and Political Geography, 1948-2000 Chapter Two: Structure and Agency in African Households Chapter Three: Home Improvement, Self Improvement: Renovations and the Reconstruction of ‘Home’ Chapter Four: Hearth and Home: Energy Resourcing and Consumption in an Urban Environment Chapter Five: Beloved Unions?: Associational Life in Town Chapter Six: ‘Moving’ Memories, Urbanising Identities
Explores the process and consequences of settlement through the everyday lives and testimonies of three generations of African women in Cape Town during the apartheid (1948-94) and post-apartheid periods.
Rebekah Lee is Lecturer in the Department of History, Goldsmiths College, University of London. She has published on the social and cultural history of South Africa, and her research interests include gender and migration, religion, identity, health and material culture. She is currently engaged in a collaborative project on the history of death in Africa from c. 1800 to the present day.
"Lee has many acute and modest things to say about life history oral testimony, acknowledging problems of memory, of myth, of incomprehension...the reader trusts the sound and feel of Lee's citations" -- Terence Ranger, "The Round Table"
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