
Contributor(s): Author: Stephanie Urdang Stephanie Urdang was born in Cape Town, South Africa, into a white, Jewish family staunchly opposed to the apartheid regime.
In 1967, at the age of twenty-three, no longer able to tolerate the grotesque iniquities and oppression of apartheid, she chose exile and emigrated to the United States.
There she embraced feminism, met anti-apartheid and solidarity movement activists, and encountered a particularly America.











