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The aim of this paper is to study some of Lauren Beukes' feminine characters and to draw a parallel between them and some famous South African personalities presented in her non-fiction work Maverick: Extraordinary Women from South Africa's Past. To this end, I will analyse three of her novels, Moxyland (2008), Zoo City (2010) and The Shining Girls (2012), in order to draw attention to the part played by South African women in Apartheid and post-Apartheid society.

The WomenAction 2000 case data illustrate that the Internet situation among women's organizations in Africa is highly problematic. The women have specific computer network needs -- & even among this "group" the needs vary. They further represent grassroots women who have no access to computer networks. The survey data illustrate that appropriate theorizing on Internet working by women in Africa must address both technological & social issues. It must also integrate gender, North-South, context, & other aspects. For this purpose, available approaches are neither complete nor entirely adequate. Together, however, they offer enough building blocks to study African women & Internet introduction appropriately. Constructivist technology studies (including gender & technology approaches) offer good starting points for an appropriate model. Nevertheless, constructivism needs additions to support gender empowerment in the South. Critical development studies & the integrative view on global communications offer useful additions to this end. 1 Table, 43 References. Adapted from the source document.

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Women and Gender in Africa before 1700; 2 Market Traders, Queens, and Slaves in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries; 3 Religion and Slavery in the Nineteenth Century; 4 Colonial Era, 1850s to 1945: Work and Family; 5 Politics, Leadership, and Resistance to Colonialism until 1945; 6 Liberation Struggles and Politics from the 1950s to the 1970s; 7 Work, Family, and Urbanization from the 1970s to the 1990s; 8 Women and Politics after Independence; 9 Women at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G