330 Pages
by
Routledge
330 Pages
by
Routledge
330 Pages
by
Routledge
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Originally published in 1976 Race and Suicide in South Africa synthesises the two dimensions of suicide: the personal and the social phenomenon. Its approach is Durkheimian in the use of court records, and phenomenological in the examination of actual cases. About 1500 cases of suicide in Durban from 1940-70 are analysed in terms of race, sex, occupation, marital status, economic status, family... Read more
Biography
Fatima Meer was was a South African writer, academic, screenwriter, and prominent anti-apartheid activist.
‘…a fascinating and salutary study.’ Richard Thompson Journal of Sociology, Vol 14, Issue 3
