My dream is to be bold : our work to end patriarchy

Record details

ISBN: 9781906387914
ISBN: 1906387915
ISBN: 9781906387921 (e-book)
ISBN: 1906387923 (e-book)
Physical Description: print
262 p. : ill. (chiefly col.). ; 25 cm.
Publisher: Cape Town : Pambazuka Press, 2011.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Includes index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Remmoho: a space that was needed and thus created for women in the anti-privatisation forum -- Local rural development -- The Whole World Women's Association: speaking for ourselves, demanding our rights as refugee and South African women -- The challenge to evictions and privatisation of basic health, education, water, and electricity services through the anti-privatisation forum -- University of Cape Town workers support committee: committed to workers' rights to decent and dignified conditions -- Sikhula Sonke: a women led farm workers' trad union and social movement -- Kganya Women's Consortium and Itoseng Women's Project fighting HIV/AIDs and water cut offs at Orange Farm -- Feminist political education, building women's leadership for activists -- Grassroots feminist activism, United Against Starvation, Women of Action -- Ogoni Solidarity Forum and Ogoni women's struggles in a refugee camp for Nigerians in Benin -- The Surplus People's Project on the agrarian reform for food sovereignty campaign -- Rural anti GMO reform and food sovereignty campaign -- Feminist alternatives for change -- Abahlali baseMjondolo (shackdwellers) women's league -- Informal settlements in struggle -- Housing activism and feminist collaborations -- Women and the Soweto Electricity Crisis Committee, water and the politics of funding -- Feminism, HIV/AIDS and women's experiences: a decade of activism -- Lesbian women organising -- Conclusion: already bold, we must be even bolder.