Women and power in Zimbabwe : promises of feminism /
The revolt against white rule in Rhodesia nurtured incipient local feminisms in women who imagined independence as a road to gender equity and economic justice. But the country's rebirth as Zimbabwe and Robert Mugabe's rise to power dashed these hopes. Using history, literature, participan...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Język: | angielski |
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press
[2015]
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| Seria: | UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Global Cultural Studies.
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| Dostęp online: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/j.ctt17t75wv |
Spis treści:
- Introduction
- Sticks and scones : the homecraft movement in colonial Zimbabwe
- Flame, Nyaradzo, and pretty : black women and girls in Harare with reason to hope
- Women against government : an NGO under stress
- Mercy, mercy, mercy : middle-class working wives and mothers in Harare
- Reflections : promises of freedom and feminism.