Pentecostal Charismatic Women: Constructions of Femininity in Alexandra Township

Drawing on her own experiences, Tumi Mampane provides deep insights into the daily lives of women in a South African Pentecostal community. Equally, she relates those insights to Black/African feminist and womanist theory. Her autoethnographic study exposes the complexities and contestations that exist not only in Charismatic discourses, but also in the relationships that the community's women have with one another.

CONTENTS:
* Becoming Charistmatic Women.
* Contested Pentecostalisms: A Review.
* Between the Feminized Other and Black Women's Power.
* This Field I Call Home.
* Constructions of Femininity.
* A Question of Difference.