This article investigates the writing strategies utilized by Joyce Waring in her three autobiographical texts, I'm no Lady (1956), Sticks and Stones (1969) and Hot Air (1977) to critique men and patriarchy. Due to a variety of cultural, social and political factors, there is a paucity of South African feminist writing published from the 1950s to the 1980s, making Joyce Waring's feminist critique of gendered society, men and patriarchy rare. However, as this article suggests, when read retrospectively, Waring's feminist criticism, albeit unusual for the period in question, fails in its critique because of its wilful dismissal of the myriad of class and racial factors inherent to women's lived and social experiences in apartheid South Africa. Waring's feminism thus conforms to what Nadine Gordimer describes as the ‘piffling' white feminism of the period. However, as problematic Waring's writing on gender is, her voice remains important as part of the construction of an archive of women’s life writing of the period and in guarding against the sanitizing of South African (literary) history and erasing of the specificities of past atrocities.

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乔伊斯·瓦林自传文本中的“吹毛求疵”女权主义

本文调查了乔伊斯·瓦林在她的三部自传体文本中使用的写作策略，我不是女士 (1956)、棍棒和石头 (1969) 和热空气 (1977) 来批评男性和父权制。由于各种文化、社会和政治因素，从 1950 年代到 1980 年代出版的南非女权主义作品很少，这使得乔伊斯·瓦林对性别社会、男性和父权制的女权主义批评很少见。然而，正如本文所暗示的，当回顾过去时，Waring 的女权主义批评虽然在所讨论的时期不同寻常，但由于其故意摒弃了种族隔离南方妇女生活和社会经历所固有的无数阶级和种族因素，因此其批评失败了。非洲。因此，瓦林的女权主义符合纳丁·戈迪默 (Nadine Gordimer) 所描述的“令人讨厌的” 那个时期的白人女权主义。然而，作为有问题的华林关于性别的写作，她的声音仍然很重要，作为构建该时期女性生活写作档案的一部分，并防止对南非（文学）历史的消毒和消除过去暴行的特殊性.