Beneath the "Zunami": Jacob Zuma and the gendered politics of social reproduction in South Africa

Antipode

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1102-1126

  Hunter, Mark ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Gender; Gramsci; Jacob Zuma; Social reproduction; South Africa

Indexed keywords

ELECTION; GENDER RELATIONS; NEOLIBERALISM; PATRIARCHY; POLITICAL POWER; POWER RELATIONS;

SOUTH AFRICA;

ZUMA;

EID: 79961175506     PISSN: 00664812     EISSN: 14678330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8330.2010.00847.x     Document Type: Article

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