dc.contributor.author | Blignaut, Charl | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-11-11T06:54:17Z | |
dc.date.available | 2016-11-11T06:54:17Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2015 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Blignaut, C. 2015. “Skep julle kommando’s in reddingslaers om! Een vir almal, almal vir elkeen!”: Die Ossewa-Brandwag se maatskaplike beleid van Sosiale Volksorg, 1943-1952. New Contree : A journal of Historical and Human Sciences for Southern Africa. 74:72-89, Dec. [http://dspace.nwu.ac.za/handle/10394/4969] | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0379-9867 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10394/19390 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://dspace.nwu.ac.za/handle/10394/4969 | |
dc.description.abstract | Established as an organisation with the aim to influence all aspects of Afrikaner
life, the Ossewa-Brandwag (OB) made an impact on the lives of thousands of
Afrikaners between 1939 and 1954. At the very start the movement set out to
be solely a male enterprise. However, because of the intense emotional feelings
and nationalist sentiments created by the 1938 Centenary Celebrations of
the Great Trek, women showed great enthusiasm for the OB. This compelled
leadership to ensure them a place in the organisation. Thousands of women
would eventually take part in all the activities of the movement – from
fundraising to political resistance. One of the activities where women excelled
was in taking the lead in the many charitable endeavours of the OB referred
to as “volksorg” (social care of the nation). No published study exists on the
role of women in “volksorg” after the reorganisation of the OB in 1943. This
article aims to describe the place and role of women in OB-centred charitable
work encapsulated in the concept “volksorg”. Attention is given to the official
goals and activities of the “Ossewa-Brandwag Vroue Volksorg Vertakking”
(Women’s “Volksorg” Branch) and the movement’s singular interpretation of
the “social”. Contemporaries’ understanding of sexual difference is explained
through emphasising the distribution of labour according to the norms of
gender. In this way the article aims to shed light on how the gender order was
shaped by contemporaries’ determinist interpretation of sex. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | other | en_US |
dc.publisher | School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University | en_US |
dc.subject | Charity | en_US |
dc.subject | Women | en_US |
dc.subject | Afrikaner women | en_US |
dc.subject | Women’s History | en_US |
dc.subject | Gender | en_US |
dc.subject | Social Policy | en_US |
dc.subject | Ossewa-Brandwag | en_US |
dc.subject | Volksorg | en_US |
dc.title | “Skep julle kommando’s in reddingslaers om! Een vir almal, almal vir elkeen!”: Die Ossewa-Brandwag se maatskaplike beleid van Sosiale Volksorg, 1943-1952 | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.contributor.researchID | 20312814 - Blignaut, Charl | |