This article explores ways in which material changes engendered by World War I influenced ideas about Cape Town and its people. For the city's middle classes, these conditions – including a rise in the cost of living, increased urbanization, the growth of factory work for women and the notable presence of soldiers in the city – heightened the sense that Cape Town was a place of increased moral corruption. In particular, females were portrayed as pivotal to the upholding of the moral and racial integrity of the city, nation and empire. Yet the perceived race and class of different Capetonian women influenced the expectations (and accordant condemnations) of their behaviour. This linked to white middle-class anxieties about miscegenation and urban order. As such, discourses around female behaviour during the war represented a nexus between issues of health, race and morality within the South African urban context.

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母性、道德和物质性：战时开普敦的物质变化如何影响围绕妇女、种族健康和城市的话语，1914-1919

本文探讨第一次世界大战造成的物质变化如何影响有关开普敦及其人民的观念。对于该市的中产阶级来说，这些条件——包括生活成本的上升、城市化进程的加快、女性工厂工作的增长以及该市士兵的显着存在——增强了开普敦是一个道德提高的地方的感觉。腐败。特别是，女性被描绘成维护城市、国家和帝国的道德和种族完整性的关键。然而，不同开普敦妇女的种族和阶级影响了她们对行为的期望（和一致的谴责）。这与白人中产阶级对通婚和城市秩序的焦虑有关。因此，