Emily Bridger
Biographic Data
| ID | 158337 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emily Bridger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emily |
| FAMILY NAME | Bridger |
| SIGNATURE | BRIDGER E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Exeter |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9583-0853 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
‘My child, rape follows you’: Oral Histories of Sexual Violence in South Africa
This article examines the methodological challenges of using oral history to research histories of sexual violence. Drawing on a project exploring rape in apartheid South Africa, it asks questions about how interviews should be conducted and how the resulting narratives can be sensitively analysed. While oral histories are subjective sources, inherently shaped by present contexts and co-created in a unique relationship between interviewee and int…
National Liberation and the Political Life of Exile: Sex, Gender, and Nation in the Struggle against Apartheid. By Rachel Sandwell
The Vaal Uprising of 1984 & the Struggle for Freedom in South Africa, by Franziska Rueedi
(Un)Remembering Sexual Violence in South African History
South Africa is a country known for its high rates of gender-based and sexual violence. Historical research demonstrates that such issues are not new to the post-apartheid era but have deep roots stretching into the country's colonial and apartheid periods. Yet when asked to reflect on historic sexual violence, oral history interviewees - Black women in their sixties, seventies and eighties - largely recalled the apartheid past as a period devoid…
Apartheid's 'rape crisis: Understanding and addressing sexual violence in South Africa, 1970s-1990s
Although rape in South Africa today is commonly framed as a post-apartheid ‘crisis’, neither sexual violence nor public concern about it in the country is new. This article explores an earlier period of ‘rape crisis’ from the 1970s to early 1990s, when sexual violence became a key topic of discussion amongst apartheid politicians, Black community leaders, feminist activists, and ordinary men and women. Focusing on the township of Soweto, it exami…
Surfeit and Silence: Sexual Violence in the Apartheid Archive
Despite contemporary concerns about sexual violence in South Africa, the longer history of violence against women has been insufficiently explored. This article examines the apartheid-era archive on sexual violence, exploring what methodologies can be used and histories written based on its contents. It argues that this archive is marked by a contradictory dichotomy of both excess and absence. While many sources from the 1950s to 1980s, and parti…
Township Violence and the End of Apartheid: War on the Reef
In February 1990, the governing National Party (NP) in South Africa released Nelson Mandela from prison, announced the unbanning of oppositional parties including the African National Congress (ANC
Soweto's Female Comrades: Gender, Youth and Violence in South Africa's Township Uprisings, 1984-1990
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Taylor & Francis (Routledge) via the DOI in this record
Our Fighting Sisters: Nation, memory and gender in Algeria, 1954-2012 by Natalya Vince
Reviewed by: Our Fighting Sisters: Nation, memory and gender in Algeria, 1954–2012 by Natalya Vince Emily Bridger Our Fighting Sisters: Nation, memory and gender in Algeria, 1954–2012 By Natalya Vince. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2015. In Our Fighting Sisters, Natalya Vince examines the history of female war veterans in Algeria, from the outset of the War of Independence in 1954, through the postcolonial years of nation building and …
From ‘Mother of the Nation’ to ‘Lady Macbeth’: Winnie Mandela and Perceptions of Female Violence in South Africa, 1985-91
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from the publisher via the DOI in this record
Soweto's Female Comrades: Gender, Youth and Violence in South Africa's Township Uprisings, 1984-1990
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Taylor & Francis (Routledge) via the DOI in this record
From ‘Mother of the Nation’ to ‘Lady Macbeth’: Winnie Mandela and Perceptions of Female Violence in South Africa, 1985-91
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from the publisher via the DOI in this record
Apartheid's 'rape crisis: Understanding and addressing sexual violence in South Africa, 1970s-1990s
Although rape in South Africa today is commonly framed as a post-apartheid ‘crisis’, neither sexual violence nor public concern about it in the country is new. This article explores an earlier period of ‘rape crisis’ from the 1970s to early 1990s, when sexual violence became a key topic of discussion amongst apartheid politicians, Black community leaders, feminist activists, and ordinary men and women. Focusing on the township of Soweto, it exami…
Township Violence and the End of Apartheid: War on the Reef
In February 1990, the governing National Party (NP) in South Africa released Nelson Mandela from prison, announced the unbanning of oppositional parties including the African National Congress (ANC
From ‘Mother of the Nation’ to ‘Lady Macbeth’: Winnie Mandela and Perceptions of Female Violence in South Africa, 1985-91
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from the publisher via the DOI in this record
Our Fighting Sisters: Nation, memory and gender in Algeria, 1954-2012 by Natalya Vince
Reviewed by: Our Fighting Sisters: Nation, memory and gender in Algeria, 1954–2012 by Natalya Vince Emily Bridger Our Fighting Sisters: Nation, memory and gender in Algeria, 1954–2012 By Natalya Vince. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2015. In Our Fighting Sisters, Natalya Vince examines the history of female war veterans in Algeria, from the outset of the War of Independence in 1954, through the postcolonial years of nation building and …
Soweto's Female Comrades: Gender, Youth and Violence in South Africa's Township Uprisings, 1984-1990
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Taylor & Francis (Routledge) via the DOI in this record
Township Violence and the End of Apartheid: War on the Reef
In February 1990, the governing National Party (NP) in South Africa released Nelson Mandela from prison, announced the unbanning of oppositional parties including the African National Congress (ANC
Surfeit and Silence: Sexual Violence in the Apartheid Archive
Despite contemporary concerns about sexual violence in South Africa, the longer history of violence against women has been insufficiently explored. This article examines the apartheid-era archive on sexual violence, exploring what methodologies can be used and histories written based on its contents. It argues that this archive is marked by a contradictory dichotomy of both excess and absence. While many sources from the 1950s to 1980s, and parti…
Apartheid's 'rape crisis: Understanding and addressing sexual violence in South Africa, 1970s-1990s
Although rape in South Africa today is commonly framed as a post-apartheid ‘crisis’, neither sexual violence nor public concern about it in the country is new. This article explores an earlier period of ‘rape crisis’ from the 1970s to early 1990s, when sexual violence became a key topic of discussion amongst apartheid politicians, Black community leaders, feminist activists, and ordinary men and women. Focusing on the township of Soweto, it exami…
The Vaal Uprising of 1984 & the Struggle for Freedom in South Africa, by Franziska Rueedi
(Un)Remembering Sexual Violence in South African History
South Africa is a country known for its high rates of gender-based and sexual violence. Historical research demonstrates that such issues are not new to the post-apartheid era but have deep roots stretching into the country's colonial and apartheid periods. Yet when asked to reflect on historic sexual violence, oral history interviewees - Black women in their sixties, seventies and eighties - largely recalled the apartheid past as a period devoid…
‘My child, rape follows you’: Oral Histories of Sexual Violence in South Africa
This article examines the methodological challenges of using oral history to research histories of sexual violence. Drawing on a project exploring rape in apartheid South Africa, it asks questions about how interviews should be conducted and how the resulting narratives can be sensitively analysed. While oral histories are subjective sources, inherently shaped by present contexts and co-created in a unique relationship between interviewee and int…
National Liberation and the Political Life of Exile: Sex, Gender, and Nation in the Struggle against Apartheid. By Rachel Sandwell
Political science (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · South African History and Culture (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Criminology (4 works) · Narrative (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Sexual violence (4 works)