Women's Activism in the British Anti-Apartheid Movement, 1986–1994
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8957491 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kate Law (0000-0003-2925-201X, University of Nottingham, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 66 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 258-279 |
| Publication date | 2022-11-28 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Historical Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-246X • E-ISSN: 1469-5103 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0018246x22000310 |
| OpenAlex | W4310267039 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 15 |
Laying the groundwork for a new way to think through the history of British anti-apartheid activity, this article examines the liminal space between anti-racist and feminist activity through a case-study of Leeds Women Against Apartheid. Founded in 1986, LWAA were comprised of a dedicated nucleus of activists, and were concerned with imbuing international solidarity with a tangible meaning. To LWAA, solidarity had a quantifiable basis that could be articulated through the collection of material aid and the raising of funds. The first attempt to ‘gender’ the history of the British Anti-Apartheid Movement, this article argues for the importance of reconceptualizing women's activism, whilst also reflecting on the ‘value’ ascribed to their political engagement. As the example of LWAA shows, by organizing from an ‘autonomous outside position’, the group did so as a prosaic reaction to the realities of working with a masculinist movement. Furthermore, as is shown, while the movement may have been united by a commitment to anti-racism, matters of sexual equality were certainly understood as secondary, and were seen – on both the national and local level – as an unwanted interpolation. In a broader sense then, the article also reflects on the ‘problem’ of gender in progressive social movements
Aesthetics · Liminality · Movement (music · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Solidarity · Space (punctuation) · Anthropology · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Gender Studies · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Law · South African History and Culture
Lancashire Women against Pit Closures
Labour, Gender and Deindustrialisation
How Men Valued Women's Work
A ‘Radical Project’
New Approaches to High Apartheid and Anti-Apartheid
Under Western Eyes
Beyond compare? Women's movements in comparative perspective
Consciousness-Raising in Clapham; Women's Liberation as 'Lived Experience' in South London in the 1970s
The 1970s
The Meaning(s) of Solidarity
The British Anti-Apartheid Movement and Political Prisoner Campaigns, 1973-1980
Women, Marriage and Paid Work in Post-war Britain
Female emancipation in an imperial frame
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |