HIST201

In this essay, the role of gender within African societies in the major, urban South African cities such as Durban will be explored. The essay will focus on and discuss the reasons cities often developed into masculine spaces in the late 19th and early 20th centuries; the beginning of a shift in the gender dynamics in the 1930s; as well as using an analysis of Cato Manor as a case study, to illustrate the influence African women had in the urban area by the 1950s.