A new agenda

Abstract

Since the beginning of this decade, South Africa has embarked upon a process of fundamental reconstruction, striving for a nonracist, nonsexist society. The feminist movement in South Africa is contributing to this process. To be relevant to the new emerging order, South African feminism has to be fully inclusive and sensitive to the diversities of culture and class found in this complex society. This requires moving away from the predominantly white, middle-class, intellectual profile of the Apartheid years. An analysis of articles published in Agenda, a South African feminist journal, during the year of the first democratic election in the country (1994) gives an account of the framework established for the transformation of the feminist movement in the New South Africa. This article contributes to the historicising of context-specific feminisms.