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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Volksmoeder"”.
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Gender, community and identity : women and Afrikaner nationalism in the Volksmoeder discourse of Die Boerevrou (1919-1931)
… Within this discourse, which may be termed the "volksmoeder" discourse, a new identity and new roles were contrived for Afrikaner women. We first investigate the social and historical context in which the discourse was generated and then analyse the "volksmoeder" discourse itself by focusing on …
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Identities at the intersection of race, gender, sexuality and class in a liberalising, democratising South Africa : the reconstitution of 'the Afrikaner woman'
… women beyond the normative Afrikaner nationalist volksmoeder [mother of the nation] ideal. The study interrogates Afrikaner subjectivities through the interpretive lens of ordentlikheid - an ethnicised respectability - at the intersections of gender, sexuality, class and race. Framed by the …
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The South African War and Afrikaner nationalism in Afrikaans-language films and television : changing representations circa 1930s - 2000s
… and tropes. Some of these tropes, such as, the volksmoeder, Afrikaner myths of origin and belonging and the importance of land are also critical to iterations of ethno-nationalism throughout the twentieth and into the twenty-first centuries.