Sisters for Justice
Small Acts in the Transformation of Apartheid South Africa
- Publisher's listprice GBP 64.00
-
28 896 Ft (27 520 Ft + 5% VAT)
The price is estimated because at the time of ordering we do not know what conversion rates will apply to HUF / product currency when the book arrives. In case HUF is weaker, the price increases slightly, in case HUF is stronger, the price goes lower slightly.
- Discount 10% (cc. 2 890 Ft off)
- Discounted price 26 006 Ft (24 768 Ft + 5% VAT)
Subcribe now and take benefit of a favourable price.
Subscribe
28 896 Ft
Availability
Not yet published.
Why don't you give exact delivery time?
Delivery time is estimated on our previous experiences. We give estimations only, because we order from outside Hungary, and the delivery time mainly depends on how quickly the publisher supplies the book. Faster or slower deliveries both happen, but we do our best to supply as quickly as possible.
Product details:
- Publisher University of Wisconsin Press
- Date of Publication 30 June 2026
- ISBN 9780299352301
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages344 pages
- Size 229x152 mm
- Weight 454 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 17 b&w illus., 2 maps 700
Categories
Long description:
Sisters for Justice explores the activism of a select number of Catholic religious sisters in South Africa, beginning in the 1960s. Catherine Higgs analyzes how these individuals’ seemingly small actions in a variety of spheres helped shift policy and contribute to the dismantling of the apartheid state. As she reveals, they helped provide basic medical services to displaced Africans, opened private convent schools to children of all races despite segregationist laws, advocated for African pension rights, served on justice and peace commissions, and joined protests—all while working within the context of a hierarchical male-led church initially hesitant to criticize a state openly hostile to Catholics.
Based on extensive oral history interviews with white and Black sisters as well as deep archival research, this groundbreaking book reveals a largely untold story, nested within the broader literature of women’s activism in South Africa. The result is a new perspective that expands and intensifies our understanding of a dramatic period during which individual actions, in the aggregate, contributed to social change.
Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1 Catholic Sisters in Southern Africa, 1849–1961
2 Embracing Change, 1962–1969
3 Education, White Sisters, and Black Sisters, 1970–1972
4 “Opening” Schools, 1973–1976
5 Embracing Risk, 1977–1984
6 Turning Point, 1985
7 Years of Fear and Resilience, 1986–1989
8 Transition to a New South Africa, 1990–1994
Conclusion
Note on Method
Notes
Bibliography
Index
