AAS 17 Lecture 10: Week 10 Questions
30 May 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
CHANGU MANNATHOKO
1. The different identities that Mannathoko brings up in describing herself are: professional
middle-class, white-collar worker, black woman, single parent, and member of two ethnic
groups.
2. Modernization changed gender relations because it led to the migrant labor system and the
emergence of the phenomenon of the single female headed family. It had this impact because
large numbers of men migrated to South Africa to work in the mines as migrant laborers.
3. The many unmarried single mothers are able to raise their children without help from the
extended family by depending on women domestic workers to care for the children while they
are out working in the public sphere.
4. Many single mothers rely on the men on the maternal side to provide the male role models.
5. Resistance to oppressive patriarchal laws unite women across class borders.
6. Professional middle-class women’s family responsibilities are eased by the availability of cheap
women domestic workers who take care of the children and housekeeping while they are out in
the public workspace.
7. The author’s feminist vision involves liberating all women regardless of social class, ethnicity or
‘race’ from oppression by men.
8. A higher education, comfortable professional middle-class lifestyle, and the support of her
parents has made it easier for the author to opt out of marriage.
ONALENNA SELOLWANE
1. The Emang Basadi Women's Association came into formal existence in 1986 to lobby against
laws that discriminated against women in Botswana.
2. The founding members of Emang Basadi were accused of being misguided, Western-educated
young women who were out of touch with their African culture, and therefore unrepresentative
of African womanhood.
3. Members of Emang Basadi found that people, women in particular, did not have a full grasp of
the consequences of laws enacted on their behalf.
4. Unity Dow sought relief from the courts, challenging the constitutionality of her being denied
the right to pass her citizenship to her children born from a union with a non-citizen husband.
5. In 1993, given that a number of other women's organizations had emerged to take up the
struggle against various areas of discrimination, Emang Basadi officially changed its strategy and
shifted its focus from championing individual rights to political empowerment and seeking to
increase women's representation in the legislature, political parties and cabinet.
6. Emang Basadi recognized that the major challenges they faced were: a) a politically ignorant
voting public; and b) rigid and undemocratic internal party structures, which did not recognize
women as legitimate candidates for political leadership.
7. Like most women's wings of political parties throughout the African continent, Botswana's
women's wings had historically been dominated by spouses and associates of male politicians,
who had tended to see their role as supporting men rather than representing women's
interests, the so-called “First Lady” syndrome.
