Costa Lecture on South African Women Set
for 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in Morton
Hall
University
of London Professor Shula Marks will
deliver the 22nd Costa Lecture in History
on "Changing History, Changing Histories:
Separations and Connections in the Lives
of South African Women" at 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday, Nov.9, in 237 Morton Hall.
Marks
will revisit the subjects that framed her
book "Not Either an Experimental Doll." In
this work, she examined the interactions
between a young black woman who
desperately wanted to gain an education,
an older white woman who first befriended
and then betrayed her and a middle-aged
black woman who failed to find a way to
mediate between the two.
Marks'
contributions to history have been
recognized by honorary degrees from South
African institutions, election as a Fellow
in the British Academy and designation as
an Officer of the British Empire. Marks is
a faculty member of the School of Oriental
and African Studies at the University of
London and is credited with changing the
way history is written in South Africa.
Her research has demonstrated how the past
embraced by the apartheid regime was a
mixture of fallacy and mythology designed
to sustain white rule over a black
majority.
Marks'
publications range over the fields of
social and economic history with special
focus on the history of health care,
women, race, class, ethnicity, and
nationalism. Her books include "Apartheid
and Health" and "Divided Sisterhood: Race,
Class, and Gender in the South African
Nursing Profession."
The
lecture is free and open to the
public.
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