Meghan Healy-Clancy
Biographic Data
| ID | 636546 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Meghan Healy-Clancy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Meghan |
| FAMILY NAME | Healy-Clancy |
| SIGNATURE | HEALY-CLANCY M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bridgewater State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1198-612X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Gender, Generation, and the Shadows of South Africa’s Liberation Struggle
Review essay of two books on gender and the struggle against apartheid.
Gendered Segregation in KwaZulu‐Natal, South Africa and the Making of Bertha Mkhize (1889–1981)
This article explores the life of ubiquitous South African activist Bertha Mkhize, drawing upon interviews and archives. A trained teacher, she became a tailor and leader in the Industrial and Commercial Workers Union in Durban in the 1920s. She then attained national prominence in the African National Congress. Yet by 1960, she separated herself from formal politics in Durban to build rural religious communities in the Bahá’í Faith. Mkhize's tra…
Paul S. Landau. Spear
How polygamy became queer
Colonial Natal occupies a curious place in Africanist scholarship, and in broader studies of empire. On one hand, scholars have highlighted colonial Natal as the birthplace of policies of segregati
B rian W illan . Sol Plaatje
In 1917, Sol Plaatje demurred when asked to serve as the second president of the South African Native National Congress—later known as the African National Congress. In a telling quote, Plaatje explained, “There are only sixteen working hours in a day, and I could not possibly find the time to earn my living while trying to lead the unwieldy masses” (329). Appearing halfway through Brian Willan’s magisterial new biography, Sol Plaatje: A Life of …
Liberation and Development
Writing from Johannesburg
This article examines how Nadine Gordimer navigated the political exigencies of being an anti-apartheid writer in Johannesburg as the multiracial literary world of the 1950s was destroyed. In the 1950s, her fiction introduced Johannesburg's counterculture to a global audience, leading to invitations to provide an inside perspective on apartheid. The global witness role that she assumed grew more awkward as she grew more isolated at home, pushing …
Pioneers of the Field
This study begins with a wall of portraits in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of the Witwatersrand, featuring a number of white men and one white woman. Andrew Bank contends
The Family Politics of the Federation of South African Women
This article reexamines the roots of the Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW), the first national organization of women from all state-defined racial groups united against apartheid, founded in 1954. It argues that the deep history of public motherhood in southern Africa was what made FEDSAW possible: biological and symbolic motherhood had long been associated with responsibility for public social life in the region. Moreover, the article d…
Interview with Lauretta Ngcobo (1931–2015)
The everyday politics of being a student in South Africa
Over the past year, student protests under the banners #RhodesMustFall and #FeesMustFall have swept South Africa, demanding the “decolonization” of curricula and greater educational access. This article contextualizes these protests, drawing on a vibrant historiography on student politics under apartheid (1948–1994). In scholarship produced during the antiapartheid movement, it often seemed that the history of student protests was the history of …
Margaret Bourke-White and the Dawn of Apartheid
In September 1950, readers of the enormously popular American magazine Life encountered a report on ‘South Africa and Its Problem: In a Black Land White Rule and Human Liberty Clash’.1 The problem
Daniel Magaziner . The Art of Life in South Africa. Athens
Review of: The Art of Life in South Africa by Daniel Magaziner. Ohio University Press, 2016
Our land, our life, our future
On the cover of this book are eight men, staring head-on into the camera. They are suited in coats and ties, their stance confident and strong. Yet their faces are faded. Stains and light damage ha
The Politics of New African Marriage in Segregationist South Africa
For the mission-educated men and women known as "New Africans" in segregationist South Africa, the pleasures and challenges of courtship and marriage were not only experienced privately. New Africans also broadcast marital narratives as political discourses of race-making and nation-building. Through close readings of neglected press sources and memoirs, this article examines this political interpolation of private life in public culture. Women's…
A Heart for the Work
A Heart for the Work: Journeys through an African Medical School. By CLAIRE L. WENDLAND. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010. vii +330 pp. ISBN 0 226 893 278. The first ethnography of an Afr
Women and the Problem of Family in Early African Nationalist History and Historiography
Women played critical roles in making African nationalism ideologically and practically possible in South Africa. They not only participated in organisations, institutions, and campaigns that were well-documented by contemporaries. Some also documented themselves – inscribing their ideals of nation, race, and citizenship in speeches, portraits, and writing. These women travelled around the country and, in a few influential cases, around the world…
Women and the Problem of Family in Early African Nationalist History and Historiography
Women played critical roles in making African nationalism ideologically and practically possible in South Africa. They not only participated in organisations, institutions, and campaigns that were well-documented by contemporaries. Some also documented themselves – inscribing their ideals of nation, race, and citizenship in speeches, portraits, and writing. These women travelled around the country and, in a few influential cases, around the world…
The Politics of New African Marriage in Segregationist South Africa
For the mission-educated men and women known as "New Africans" in segregationist South Africa, the pleasures and challenges of courtship and marriage were not only experienced privately. New Africans also broadcast marital narratives as political discourses of race-making and nation-building. Through close readings of neglected press sources and memoirs, this article examines this political interpolation of private life in public culture. Women's…
Writing from Johannesburg
This article examines how Nadine Gordimer navigated the political exigencies of being an anti-apartheid writer in Johannesburg as the multiracial literary world of the 1950s was destroyed. In the 1950s, her fiction introduced Johannesburg's counterculture to a global audience, leading to invitations to provide an inside perspective on apartheid. The global witness role that she assumed grew more awkward as she grew more isolated at home, pushing …
Interview with Lauretta Ngcobo (1931–2015)
The everyday politics of being a student in South Africa
Over the past year, student protests under the banners #RhodesMustFall and #FeesMustFall have swept South Africa, demanding the “decolonization” of curricula and greater educational access. This article contextualizes these protests, drawing on a vibrant historiography on student politics under apartheid (1948–1994). In scholarship produced during the antiapartheid movement, it often seemed that the history of student protests was the history of …
Women and the Problem of Family in Early African Nationalist History and Historiography
Women played critical roles in making African nationalism ideologically and practically possible in South Africa. They not only participated in organisations, institutions, and campaigns that were well-documented by contemporaries. Some also documented themselves – inscribing their ideals of nation, race, and citizenship in speeches, portraits, and writing. These women travelled around the country and, in a few influential cases, around the world…
A Heart for the Work
A Heart for the Work: Journeys through an African Medical School. By CLAIRE L. WENDLAND. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010. vii +330 pp. ISBN 0 226 893 278. The first ethnography of an Afr
The Politics of New African Marriage in Segregationist South Africa
For the mission-educated men and women known as "New Africans" in segregationist South Africa, the pleasures and challenges of courtship and marriage were not only experienced privately. New Africans also broadcast marital narratives as political discourses of race-making and nation-building. Through close readings of neglected press sources and memoirs, this article examines this political interpolation of private life in public culture. Women's…
Our land, our life, our future
On the cover of this book are eight men, staring head-on into the camera. They are suited in coats and ties, their stance confident and strong. Yet their faces are faded. Stains and light damage ha
The Family Politics of the Federation of South African Women
This article reexamines the roots of the Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW), the first national organization of women from all state-defined racial groups united against apartheid, founded in 1954. It argues that the deep history of public motherhood in southern Africa was what made FEDSAW possible: biological and symbolic motherhood had long been associated with responsibility for public social life in the region. Moreover, the article d…
Interview with Lauretta Ngcobo (1931–2015)
The everyday politics of being a student in South Africa
Over the past year, student protests under the banners #RhodesMustFall and #FeesMustFall have swept South Africa, demanding the “decolonization” of curricula and greater educational access. This article contextualizes these protests, drawing on a vibrant historiography on student politics under apartheid (1948–1994). In scholarship produced during the antiapartheid movement, it often seemed that the history of student protests was the history of …
Margaret Bourke-White and the Dawn of Apartheid
In September 1950, readers of the enormously popular American magazine Life encountered a report on ‘South Africa and Its Problem: In a Black Land White Rule and Human Liberty Clash’.1 The problem
Daniel Magaziner . The Art of Life in South Africa. Athens
Review of: The Art of Life in South Africa by Daniel Magaziner. Ohio University Press, 2016
Pioneers of the Field
This study begins with a wall of portraits in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of the Witwatersrand, featuring a number of white men and one white woman. Andrew Bank contends
Liberation and Development
Writing from Johannesburg
This article examines how Nadine Gordimer navigated the political exigencies of being an anti-apartheid writer in Johannesburg as the multiracial literary world of the 1950s was destroyed. In the 1950s, her fiction introduced Johannesburg's counterculture to a global audience, leading to invitations to provide an inside perspective on apartheid. The global witness role that she assumed grew more awkward as she grew more isolated at home, pushing …
B rian W illan . Sol Plaatje
In 1917, Sol Plaatje demurred when asked to serve as the second president of the South African Native National Congress—later known as the African National Congress. In a telling quote, Plaatje explained, “There are only sixteen working hours in a day, and I could not possibly find the time to earn my living while trying to lead the unwieldy masses” (329). Appearing halfway through Brian Willan’s magisterial new biography, Sol Plaatje: A Life of …
How polygamy became queer
Colonial Natal occupies a curious place in Africanist scholarship, and in broader studies of empire. On one hand, scholars have highlighted colonial Natal as the birthplace of policies of segregati
Paul S. Landau. Spear
Gendered Segregation in KwaZulu‐Natal, South Africa and the Making of Bertha Mkhize (1889–1981)
This article explores the life of ubiquitous South African activist Bertha Mkhize, drawing upon interviews and archives. A trained teacher, she became a tailor and leader in the Industrial and Commercial Workers Union in Durban in the 1920s. She then attained national prominence in the African National Congress. Yet by 1960, she separated herself from formal politics in Durban to build rural religious communities in the Bahá’í Faith. Mkhize's tra…
Gender, Generation, and the Shadows of South Africa’s Liberation Struggle
Review essay of two books on gender and the struggle against apartheid.
Sociology (12 works) · South African History and Culture (12 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · History (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · African history and culture studies (7 works) · History (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (6 works)