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argued (Perrot, 1990‐1991), by communicating orally and creating their history, these women who
speak, neglecting their invisibility that is socially and historically constructed, transform their status
from object to subject, including in terms of the national revolution which continues. From
controlled, they become controller of their daily lives and not of the system which products their
subalternity.
A future?
These approach have proven over the last ten years so “productive” that works were published that
inform methodologies for collecting personal stories 11 , both photographic (black and white), written
(thematic or chronological or according to the political affiliation or geographical indicator ‐ the country is
large and there are different regional cultures), and audiovisual...
Moreover, today, websites have sections dedicated to these women’s stories. They are devoted
to fields as varied as LGBT rights 12 , Landless ones or the impacts of ICT on the South African society.
The recognition of this knowledge in resistance begins to make its way since Women’s Space was
launched in Cape Town on November 27 2008, with the aim of collecting all the books and collections
of women’s memories, in all formats, including online. This very recent phenomenon ‐ which has
existed for less than seven years – coincides with the paradoxical impact of the digital age on the
lives women in this country. These women’s stories take their full resistant modern sense, injecting
“lived”, easily associable to the “past” (apartheid), or even the “morbid” (AIDS) in the “virtual”
(Internet). This invented alliance between reality and modernity demystifies the two icons – reality
and modernity – and so does creative work in a country where both items are carefully kept well at
bay, as a legacy of apartheid, by a large majority of actors of society. 13
However, the impacts of this knowledge in resistance on organizations and on people, and the
number and typology of people who read these stories, remain to be investigated.
Keywords: Resistance, Feminism, Epistemology, Africa, Subalternity
Joelle PALMIERI
Laboratoire Les Afriques dans le Monde
joelle.palmieri@gmail.com
Notes
1
ONUSIDA 2004. Rapport sur l’épidémie mondiale de SIDA, 4e rapport.
http://www.unaids.org/bangkok2004/gar2004_html_fr/GAR2004_03_fr.htm (accessed January 23,
2014).
2
Palmieri, Joelle, “Afrique du Sud : le traditionalisme et le masculinisme au secours du pouvoir”,
December 2011, http://joellepalmieri.wordpress.com/2013/02/11/afrique‐du‐sud‐letraditionalisme‐et‐le‐masculinisme‐au‐secours‐du‐pouvoir/
(accessed January 23, 2014).
3
Ibid.
4
Palmieri, Joelle, “Les femmes non connectées : une identité et des savoirs invisibles”. Joubert, Lucie
(dir.), Les voix secrètes de l’humour des femmes (Québec : Revue Recherches féministes, numéro
25,2, November 2012), 173‐190.
5
Ibid.
6
Following the period of national unity, which knows the desire to create a non‐racial liberal democracy
(Obono, Daniele. Neoliberalism and social movements, Centre tri‐continental. April 2008.
http://www.cetri.be/spip.php?article549&lang=fr (accessed January 23, 2014), Thabo Mbeki, then vicepresident,
launched in 1996 a macroeconomic policy called Growth Employment and Redistribution