Description
Book SynopsisExplores
the gendered dynamics of apartheid-era South Africa's militarisation,
analysing the defiance of compulsory military service and the anti-apartheid activism of the white men and women in
the End Conscription Campaign.
Trade ReviewConway offers a fascinating account of how the SADF adapted - presenting itself as having a place for a wider range of masculinities - as popular concern with the consequences of conscription grew through-out the 1980's.
'Conway’s book is a highly readable, engaging history of a lost chapter of anti-apartheid activism, and memorializes not only the broad and costly impacts of military conscription on white society but also the deeply personal turmoil faced by individuals who
refused to fight for a cause that they perceived was unjust'
-- .
Table of ContentsIntroduction
1. Soldiers, citizens and strangers
2. The militarisation of South Africa and the growth of war resistance
3. Performing citizenship, engendering consent: constructing militarised masculinities and citizenship in South Africa
4. Going the right way: contesting conscription
5. Breaking away: the End Conscription Campaign
6. Every cowards choice?: responses to war resistance
Conclusion
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