Jill Kelly

 Mobilizing Knowledge is an intellectual history of rural women's organizing in apartheid South Africa. Across the province of Natal in 1959, women organized protests against apartheid policies such as Bantu Authorities, alcohol restrictions, forced removals, betterment planning that included cattle culling and maintenance of dipping tanks, influx control, low wages, and the extension of passes to women. Using trial records, press coverage of the revolts, and oral history reviews with participants and their descendants, it reveals how rural women made decisions about political strategies and theorized their positions as women under the Natal Code of Native Law and patriarchies that shaped their lives during apartheid.