'A living testimony of the heights to which a woman can rise�: Sarojini Naidu, Cissie Gool and the Politics of Women�s Leadership in South Africa in the 1920s

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dc.contributor.authorvan der Spuy, Patricia
dc.contributor.authorClowes, Lindsay
dc.date.accessioned21/08/2013 09:47
dc.date.available21/08/2013 09:47
dc.date.issued2012
dc.description.abstractA leading force in the Indian National Congress, Sarojini Naidu arrived in Johannesburg, South Africa, at the end of February 1924 after receiving an invitation to support South African Indian political organisations in their struggle against the Class Areas Bill. Intending to leave South Africa after two weeks, Naidu remained for several months. In this paper we explore Naidu�s relationship with �the Joan of Arc of District Six�, Cissie Gool. We suggest that Naidu�s visit was significant for South African women�s political histories in general and Gool�s in particular. Insisting that women be respected as political activists, Naidu�s visit redefined the place of women, not only as participants in politics, but also as leaders. She provided a role model for women, such as Gool, who might otherwise not have imagined it possible to exercise power and authority within South Africa�s profoundly patriarchal political mainstream. Against the broader context of South African women�s activism Sarojini Naidu�s South African visit expands our vision to encompass the doubly marginal: women acting at the margins of women�s political history and at the margins of patriarchal politics - and further marginalised within the historiographies of each.en_US
dc.description.accreditationWeb of Scienceen_US
dc.identifier.citationvan der Spuy, P. & Clowes, L. (2012). 'A living testimony of the heights to which a woman can rise�: Sarojini Naidu, Cissie Gool and the Politics of Women�s Leadership in South Africa in the 1920s. South African Historical Journal, 1-21en_US
dc.identifier.issn0258-2473
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10566/688
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.privacy.showsubmitterFALSE
dc.publisherTaylor & Francisen_US
dc.rightsThis is the author post-print version of an article published by Taylor & Francis.
dc.source.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02582473.2012.665078
dc.status.ispeerreviewedTRUE
dc.subjectWomen�s political historyen_US
dc.subjectSouth African historyen_US
dc.subjectSarojini Naiduen_US
dc.subjectCissie Goolen_US
dc.subjectWomen�s leadershipen_US
dc.subjectClass Areas Billen_US
dc.subjectFeminist historyen_US
dc.subjectGandhien_US
dc.subjectWomen�s activismen_US
dc.title'A living testimony of the heights to which a woman can rise�: Sarojini Naidu, Cissie Gool and the Politics of Women�s Leadership in South Africa in the 1920sen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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