Women, Urbanization, and the Right to the City in South Africa
A groundbreaking work on the struggle for justice in the post-colonial Zimbabwean land crisis.
South Africa, the most urbanized country on the African continent, displays some of the highest levels of socio-economic inequality in the world. What is life like for low-income African women in urban South Africa in the post-apartheid era? Does ...
"An excellent and thorough study drawing on vivid portraits of women's struggles in South Africa, On Their Own challenges 'right to the city' literature to pay more attention to the politics of race and gender." Mark Hunter, University of Toronto-Scarborough
Allison Goebel is associate professor in the School of Environmental Studies at Queen's University. She is the author of Gender and Land Reform: The Zimbabwe Experience.