"Originally published in 2013 by the University of KwaZulu- Natal Press"--Title page verso.
The politics of black education has long been a key issue in southern African studies, but despite rich debates on the racial and class dimensions of schooling, historians have neglected their distinctive gendered dynamics. A World of Their Own is the first book to explore the meanings of black women's education in the making of modern South Africa. Its lens is a social history of the first high school for black South African women, from its 1869 founding through to the recent past.
