Masculinities, militarisation and the End Conscription Campaign : war resistance in apartheid South Africa / Daniel Conway.

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TextPublication details: MANCHESTER : MANCHESTER UNIV Press, 2017.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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1526129590
9781526129598

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305.800968 23

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DT1757 .C665 2012eb

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MASCULINITIES, MILITARISATION AND THE END CONSCRIPTION CAMPAIGN; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Soldiers, citizens and strangers; 2. The militarisation of South Africa and the growth of war; 3. Performing citizenship, engendering consent: constructing; 4. 'Going the right way': contesting conscription; 5. Breaking away: the End Conscription Campaign; 6. 'Every coward's choice'?: responses to war resistance; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index

Summary: Masculinities, militarisation and the End Conscription Campaign explores the gendered dynamics of apartheid-era South Africa's militarisation and analyses the defiance of compulsory military service by individual white men, and the anti-apartheid activism of the white men and women in the End Conscription Campaign (ECC), the most significant white anti-apartheid movement to happen in South Africa. Military conscription and objection to it are conceptualised as gendered acts of citizenship and premised on and constitutive of masculinities. Conway draws upon a range of materials and disciplines t.

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Masculinities, militarisation and the End Conscription Campaign explores the gendered dynamics of apartheid-era South Africa's militarisation and analyses the defiance of compulsory military service by individual white men, and the anti-apartheid activism of the white men and women in the End Conscription Campaign (ECC), the most significant white anti-apartheid movement to happen in South Africa. Military conscription and objection to it are conceptualised as gendered acts of citizenship and premised on and constitutive of masculinities. Conway draws upon a range of materials and disciplines t.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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