{"product_id":"sisters-for-justice-small-acts-in-the-transformation-of-apartheid-south-africa-hardback-9780299352301","title":"Sisters for Justice; Small Acts in the Transformation of Apartheid South Africa (Hardback) 9780299352301","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSisters for Justice\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eSmall Acts in the Transformation of Apartheid South Africa\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eCatherine Higgs (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780299352301\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 30 June 2026\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e344 pages, 17 b\u0026amp;w illus., 2 maps\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This is a pathbreaking account of how Catholic sisters’ essential work in education and health care under apartheid politicized them, leading women to set the pace for growing Catholic opposition to apartheid.” - Meghan Healy-Clancy, author of \u003ci\u003eA World of Their Own: A History of South African Women's Education\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Higgs brings to the fore the heretofore underrepresented story of the role that Catholic sisters played in South Africa’s struggle for liberation. This work is a major contribution, appropriate to audiences studying women's history, not just African or South African history, and issues of resistance, religion, and activism.” - Dawne Y. Curry, author of \u003ci\u003eSocial Justice at Apartheid's Dawn: African Women Intellectuals and the Quest to Save the Nation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eSisters for Justice\u003c\/i\u003e explores the activism of a select number of Catholic religious sisters in South Africa, beginning in the 1960s. Catherine Higgs analyzes how these individuals’ seemingly small actions in a variety of spheres helped shift policy and contribute to the dismantling of the apartheid state. As she reveals, they helped provide basic medical services to displaced Africans, opened private convent schools to children of all races despite segregationist laws, advocated for African pension rights, served on justice and peace commissions, and joined protests—all while working within the context of a hierarchical male-led church initially hesitant to criticize a state openly hostile to Catholics. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Based on extensive oral history interviews with white and Black sisters as well as deep archival research, this groundbreaking book reveals a largely untold story, nested within the broader literature of women’s activism in South Africa. The result is a new perspective that expands and intensifies our understanding of a dramatic period during which individual actions, in the aggregate, contributed to social change.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of Illustrations \u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments \u003cbr\u003e List of Abbreviations \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Introduction \u003cbr\u003e 1 Catholic Sisters in Southern Africa, 1849–\u003cbr\u003e1961 \u003cbr\u003e 2 Embracing Change, 1962–\u003cbr\u003e1969 \u003cbr\u003e 3 Education, White Sisters, and Black Sisters, 1970–\u003cbr\u003e1972 \u003cbr\u003e 4 “\u003cbr\u003eOpening”\u003cbr\u003e Schools, 1973–\u003cbr\u003e1976 \u003cbr\u003e 5 Embracing Risk, 1977–\u003cbr\u003e1984 \u003cbr\u003e 6 Turning Point, 1985 \u003cbr\u003e 7 Years of Fear and Resilience, 1986–\u003cbr\u003e1989 \u003cbr\u003e 8 Transition to a New South Africa, 1990–\u003cbr\u003e1994 \u003cbr\u003e Conclusion \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Note on Method \u003cbr\u003e Notes \u003cbr\u003e Bibliography \u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Wisconsin Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52530916426008,"sku":"9780299352301","price":49.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/sisters-for-justice-small-acts-in-the-transformation-of-apartheid-south-africa-hardback-9780299352301","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}