'You were men in war time' - The manipulation of gender identity in war and peace

dc.creator	Sandra S. Swart
dc.date	2012-02-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T20:09:53Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T20:09:53Z
dc.identifier	10.5787/28-2-210
dc.identifier	2224-0020
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/0d9d2786396f4e569caf45c2d1278fbc
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/9377
dc.identifier.uri	https://doaj.org/article/0d9d2786396f4e569caf45c2d1278fbc
dc.description	<p>The story of the Rebellion begins where many stories end, with the Treaty of Vereeniging. Twelve years after the end of the South African War, a handful of men in the rural backwaters of the south-western Transvaal and north-eastern Free State tried to overthrow the young South African state. The rebel leaders mobilised their followers with the rhetoric of Republican nostalgia, using the seductively refashioned images of the Republican struggle in the South African War to foster rebellion. In the first decades of the twentieth century, Boer masculine identity was based, in part; on a Republican idea1. This article focuses on this facet of Boer identity, which was inextricably bound up in a sense of Republicanism forged in the South African war and fostered by the rebel leaders. It also shows how the memories of a war can metonymically capture a sense of gendered national identity and its manipulation can contribute to a movement as powerful as a rebellion against the state.</p>
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	University of Stellenbosch. Faculty of Military Science (Military Academy)
dc.relation	http://scientiamilitaria.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/210
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/2224-0020
dc.source	Scientia Militaria : South African Journal of Military Studies, Vol 28, Iss 2 (2012)
dc.subject	The manipulation of gender identity in war and peace
dc.subject	Treaty of Vereeniging
dc.subject	Boer masculine identity
dc.subject	Rebellion
dc.subject	Republican struggle in the South African War
dc.subject	Republicanism
dc.subject	Military Science
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Military Science
dc.subject	DOAJ:Technology and Engineering
dc.subject	Military Science
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Military Science
dc.subject	DOAJ:Technology and Engineering
dc.subject	Military Science
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Military Science
dc.subject	DOAJ:Technology and Engineering
dc.subject	Military Science
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dc.subject	Military Science
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dc.subject	Military Science
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dc.title	'You were men in war time' - The manipulation of gender identity in war and peace
dc.type	Article