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Feminist Review (1993) 43, 1–25. doi:10.1057/fr.1993.1
Family, Motherhood and Zulu Nationalism: The Politics of the Inkatha Women's Brigade
Shireen Hassim lectures in the Department of Political Science at the University of Durban-Westville. She is co-ordinator of the Women and Gender Studies Network, which links academics on four campuses.
She has written extensively on women's politics in South Africa, with a particular interest in the phenomenon of women's conservatism. Her other major focus of research is the politics of the African National Congress Women's League, of which she is a member. She is in the process of co-editing a volume of papers selected from the Conference on Women and Gender in Southern Africa, which took place in January 1991.
Shireen Hassim
