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Contents
Contents:
Introduction: Oral History, Consciousness, and Gender
Prelude: Lives in Portrait
1. The Bafokeng: Myths and Realities of the Past
2. Peasant Daughters, 1900-1915
3. Church, School, and Tribe, 1910-1925
4. Leaving Home, 1920-1935
5. Courtship and Marriage, 1925-1940
6. Respectable Matrons, 1930-1945
7. Subjectivity and Identity: Tales of Violence and Persecution
8. Resentment and Defiance, 1945-1960
9. Leaving the City, 1960-1980
10. Grandmothers and Pensioners, 1980-1983