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A Gendered Analysis of the Crisis of Social Reproduction in Contemporary South Africa |
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| Authors: | Khayaat Fakier Jacklyn Cock |
| Affiliation: | 1. Society Work and Development Institute , University of the Witwatersrand , Private Bag 3, Johannesburg, 2050, South Africa E-mail: Jacklyn.Cock@wits.ac.za Khayaat.Fakier@wits.ac.za;3. Society Work and Development Institute , University of the Witwatersrand , Private Bag 3, Johannesburg, 2050, South Africa E-mail: Jacklyn.Cock@wits.ac.za |
| Abstract: | This article argues that African working class households are the sites of a crisis of social reproduction in contemporary South Africa. Through a gendered analysis of five townships in Emnambithi the article demonstrates that African working class women are the shock absorbers of this crisis. While feminist scholars point to a growing crisis of social reproduction as a global phenomenon, the South African material illustrates how poor women experience this in the South. |
| Keywords: | AIDS care gender-based violence labour migration poverty social reproduction |