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Author Salo, Elaine R., 1962-2016, author.

Title Respectable mothers, tough men and good daughters : producing persons in Manenberg township South Africa / Elaine R. Salo
Published Bamenda, North West Region, Cameroon : Langaa RPCIG, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 294 pages)
Contents Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Praise for Elain Salo and for this Book; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Sophie Oldfield. African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town; Desiree Lewis. Women's and Gender Studies, University of the Western Cape; Chapter 1 -- Manenberg -- An In-between Place with In-between People; A. Introduction; B. Autobiography and the research context: On being the 'native' anthropologist; C. Negotiating access to Manenberg; D. Learning about mothering in Manenberg; E. The theoretical debates about structure and agency in contemporary anthropology
F. Power, agency and structureG. Personhood, agency and power; H. Personhood and agency in the context of a South African township; Chapter 2 -- Making Race, Making Space: Locating Coloureds in South African History and Urban Planning; A. Discourse and debate about race on the margins; B. Coloured in relation to which other? Depends on where you're coming from; C. Segregation and apartheid: the makings of the racially exclusive nation; D. Unifying white identity: the era of segregation; E. Making nations: Apartheid's imagined communities
F. Racial stratification and urban space in Cape Town, 1800s-1980sG. Manenberg and the racial ideology of apartheid after 1950; Chapter 3 -- Clearing the Wilderness: Defining Identity from Within; A. Coming to Manenberg: Erased histories and displaced persons; B. The loss of personhood and identity; C. Peopling Manenberg: Stories of arrival; D. Clearing the social and natural wilderness: Defining colouredness in the new place; E. Defining identity from within the local spaces: A view from the periphery within
F. Thirty years after the move: The economic and cultural aspects of identity in the local contextG. The economic capital of local identity; H. The spatial and temporal capital of identity: defining local communities; Chapter 4 -- Making Mothers, Producing Persons: The Gendered Ideology of Orality and Space in the Local Community; A. Gendering housing and welfare access, gendering household formation; B. Making moeder s: A daughter's rite of passage into adult womanhood; C. Policing the moral career: Maintaining respectable mothers
D. Ordentlikheid : the ideological scaffolding of the moral economyE. Graciousness under fire: Stoic mothers encounter the state; F. The masks of respectability: Managing the suffering from within; G. Judging and mothering persons in the community; H. Conclusion; Chapter 5 -- Mans is ma soe: Men, Moeders and Ideologies of Masculinity; A. Strong bones: Making a coloured man.; B. Teaching toughness: Preparing boys for manhood; C. Becoming men through the moeders; D. Gendering boundaries, gendering persons: A lesson in defining community; E. Making 'n Ou : Gangs' rites of passage
Summary The book examines how men and women in Manenberg township, on Cape Town's inner periphery, manoeuvre to re-define themselves as gendered persons deserving of dignity, through the quotidian practices of ordentlikheid or respectability. Salo shows how reclamation of dignity is an intergenerational and gendered process that is messy and uneven, involves the expression of often-brutal physical and social exclusion of individuals through embodied and social violence. Theoretically, the narrative makes visible the careful, painstaking processes of place making and claiming dignity by men and women in a place represented as a wasteland in the dominant discourse of grand apartheid and in the contemporary neo-liberal turn in Cape Town
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 01, 2018)
Subject Identity (Psychology) -- South Africa -- Cape Town
African history.
HISTORY -- Africa -- South -- General.
HISTORY -- Africa -- South -- Republic of South Africa.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Identity (Psychology)
Manners and customs
Social conditions
SUBJECT Manenberg (Cape Town, South Africa) -- Social conditions
Manenberg (Cape Town, South Africa) -- Social life and customs
Subject South Africa -- Cape Town
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9956550388
9789956550388