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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Библиографические подробности
Главный автор: Shaw, Carolyn Martin, 1944- (Автор)
Формат: Licensed eBooks
Язык:английский
Опубликовано: Urbana : University of Illinois Press [2015]
Серии:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Global Cultural Studies.
Online-ссылка:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/j.ctt17t75wv
Оглавление:
  • 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.