Grace and The Townships Housewife: Excavating black South African women's magazines from the 1960sFootnote1

1. This Focus draws on research completed for a Masters thesis and primary research done in the National Library of South Africa, Cape Town, where copies of the two magazines can be found. I am grateful to Meg Samuelson for her assistance in completing my Masters thesis and this paper. I would also like to thank the Cape Tercentenary Foundation and the National Research Foundation, South Africa, for funding my thesis.

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