Catherine Higgs is a professor of history at the University of British Columbia. She is the author of The Ghost of Equality: The Public Lives of D. D. T. Jabavu of South Africa, 1885-1959 and Chocolate Islands: Cocoa, Slavery, and Colonial Africa and the coeditor of Stepping Forward: Black Women in Africa and the Americas.
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List of Illustrations Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction 1 Catholic Sisters in Southern Africa, 1849-1961 2 Embracing Change, 1962-1969 3 Education, White Sisters, and Black Sisters, 1970-1972 4 "Opening" Schools, 1973-1976 5 Embracing Risk, 1977-1984 6 Turning Point, 1985 7 Years of Fear and Resilience, 1986-1989 8 Transition to a New South Africa, 1990-1994 Conclusion Note on Method Notes Bibliography Index
"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 A World of Their Own: A History of South African Women's Education "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 Social Justice at Apartheid's Dawn: African Women Intellectuals and the Quest to Save the Nation