1st Edition

Domestic Democracy At Home in South Africa

By Jennifer Fish Copyright 2006
296 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

296 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

296 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This study examines the dialectic relationship between social inequality and change in the newly democratic South Africa through the lens of paid domestic labor. The complexities of this institution provide an in-depth analysis of the tension between the race and gender priorities of South Africa's new democracy and the lived realities of the majority of its population. Because paid domestic work... Read more
Chapter One. South Africa in Transition
Chapter Two. The Household as a Political Space
Chapter Three. Weaving Content, Context and Self: The Methodological Journey
Chapter Four. Resisted Transitions: The Social Landscape of Domestic Work
Chapter Five. Intersections at Play: Complexities of Gender Location
Chapter Six. Women Won't Be Free Until Domestic Workers are Free!
Chapter Seven. Bringing Democracy Home

Biography

As a professor of sociology and Chair of Women's Studies at Warren Wilson College, her teaching and research interests are centered in gender, globalization, social inequality and feminist methodology. For the past ten years, her work has focused on gender and human rights in South Africa's national transformation.

"Jennifer Fish’s work captures the nuances of two decades of research on paid domestic labor and places the South African experience in the global context…. This study makes an important contribution to research on caregiving, intersectionality, inequality, and social change. It is an excellent choice for graduate and upper-division undergraduate courses."

Mary Romero, Gender & Society