Defiant Desire: Gay and Lesbian Lives in South AfricaEdwin Cameron, Mark Gevisser Defiant Desire records the lives of lesbian and gay South Africans of all races as they have lived in the face of censure, denial and oppression. The history of gay identity in South Africa is here in its past and present aspects: from a drag salon in Woodstock to a gay "shebeen" in kwaThema; from a church in a Pretoria nightclub to Johannesburg's lesbian and gay pride march; from Afrikaans love poetry to new activism. The book is a document of lesbian and gay struggle, and indispensable for those interested in the sexual politics coursing beneath the country's troubled passage to democracy. |
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... feminist organising in the Western Cape ........... Mary Armour and Sheila Lapinsky 295 LIVING WITH LOSS IN THE BEST WAY WE KNOW HOW : AIDS and gay men in Cape Town ........... ....... 301 John V Pegge OF GAY RIGHTS AND THE PITFALLS OF ...
... feminist organising in the Western Cape ........... Mary Armour and Sheila Lapinsky 295 LIVING WITH LOSS IN THE BEST WAY WE KNOW HOW : AIDS and gay men in Cape Town ........... ....... 301 John V Pegge OF GAY RIGHTS AND THE PITFALLS OF ...
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... politics and the gay movement . Through a survey of feminist or- ganisation in Cape Town , they unearth the roots of a specifically South African lesbian consciousness , touching on the issues of lesbian marginality 10 DEFIANT DESIRE.
... politics and the gay movement . Through a survey of feminist or- ganisation in Cape Town , they unearth the roots of a specifically South African lesbian consciousness , touching on the issues of lesbian marginality 10 DEFIANT DESIRE.
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... feminism , a philosophical framework for living lives inde- pendent of men . While there is a history of women's ... feminist movement in South Africa and little bohemian subculture to speak of , lesbians thus found it even more ...
... feminism , a philosophical framework for living lives inde- pendent of men . While there is a history of women's ... feminist movement in South Africa and little bohemian subculture to speak of , lesbians thus found it even more ...
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Contents
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Moffies and the laager | 87 |
Gay and lesbian life histories in contemporary Cape Town | 140 |
ABANGIBHAMAYO BATHI NGIMNANDI | 158 |
Gay publishing in South Africa | 225 |
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