| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 109 pages) |
| Contents |
A GLIMPSE ON THE GROUND -- WOMEN'S MOVEMENT LITERATURE : PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES -- EPISTEMOLOGICAL TENSIONS METHODOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS -- THE NATIONAL CONTEXT -- ZIMBABWEAN WOMEN ORGANISING : 1980-1995 -- LAND, LAWS AND VOTES FOR WOMEN -- THEORETICAL CHALLENGES IMPLICATIONS FOR THE MOVEMENT |
| Summary |
This book demonstrates the place of women's movements during a defining period of contemporary Zimbabwe. The government of Robert Mugabe may have been as firmly in power in 2000 as it was in 1995, but the intervening years saw severe economic crisis, mass strikes and protests, the start of land occupations, intervention in the war in the DRC, and the rise of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change. The author shows how Zimbabwean women crafted responses to these and other events, and aimed for a feminist agenda that would prioritise the interests of the rural and urban poor. Rejecting both the strictures of patriarchy and the orthodoxies of established feminism, the author demands that Zimbabwe's women be heard in their own voices and in their own contexts. In doing so, this book combines scholarly integrity with a wild, joyous cry for liberation |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Feminism -- Zimbabwe
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African history.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Feminism & Feminist Theory.
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Feminism
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Social conditions
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| SUBJECT |
Zimbabwe -- History -- 1980- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85149816
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Zimbabwe -- Social conditions -- 1980- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85149828
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| Subject |
Zimbabwe
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781779222206 |
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1779222203 |
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9781779222213 |
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1779222211 |
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1779222181 |
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9781779222183 |
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