Review Essay: On Their Own: Women, Urbanization, and the Right to the City in South Africa

Wong, Yen Nee

Abstract

The essay reviews Allison Goebal’s gendered analysis of women's 'right to the city' in post-apartheid South Africa and concludes that the work makes a crucial contribution to the scholarship in its injection of a 'politics of difference' and a gendered lens. The book would however benefit from expanding on its discussion of women's care burdens to explore the inclusion of care on African women's experience of justice in the city.

• Journal Article Type: Book Review
• Online Publication Date: Jun 9, 2017
• Publication Date: Jun 9, 2017
• Deposit Date: Jul 21, 2023
• Publicly Available Date: Jul 21, 2023
• Journal: Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture and Social Justice
• Print ISSN: 0926-3195
• Publisher: Rodopi
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 38
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 262-264
• Item Discussed: Allison Goebal. On Their Own: Women, Urbanization, and the Right to the City in South Africa.Montréal, QC and Kingston, ON: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2015. 242 pp
• Keywords: Right to the City, South Africa, Urbanisation
• Publisher URL: https://journals.msvu.ca/index.php/atlantis/article/view/5335