Three Women Three Generations

Download or read book African Women written by Mark Mathabane and published by . This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In African Women, bestselling author Mark Mathabane presents the deeply moving, often shocking, but ultimately inspiring stories of his grandmother, mother and sister. Coping with abuse, gambling, drunkenness and infidelity from the men they love or have been forced to marry, all three women defy African tradition, and the poverty and violence of life in a modern urban society, to make fulfilling lives for themselves and those they love in the belly of the apartheid beast in South Africa."A powerful piece of work...It is a pleasure to finally have a book concerned with issues of dire importance to women written sensitively by a man." -- Washington Post "A finely crafted book that makes it easier to understand how the vicious cycles of abuse and oppression of women snowballed under apartheid." -- Christian Science Monitor"Mathabane shifts his attention from the evils of racism to what may be the still more insidious and intractable problems of sexism as he describes in spare, moving prose the lives of his sister, mother and grandmother." -- The Wall Street Journal