Women and Power in Zimbabwe: Promises of Feminism
Carolyn Martin Shaw
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Hardback. Num Pages: 216 pages, 12 black and white photographs, 1 map. BIC Classification: JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
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.
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, participant observation, and interviews, Carolyn Martin Shaw surveys Zimbabwean feminisms from the colonial era to today. She examines how actions as clearly disparate as baking scones for self-protection, carrying guns in the liberation, and feeling morally superior to men represent sources of female empowerment. She also presents the ways women across Zimbabwean society--rural and urban, professional and ... Read more
The result of thirty years of experience, Women and Power in Zimbabwe addresses the promises of feminism and femininity for generations of African women.
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252039638
SKU
V9780252039638
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About Carolyn Martin Shaw
Carolyn Martin Shaw is a professor emerita of anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the author of Colonial Inscriptions: Race, Sex, and Class in Kenya.
Reviews for Women and Power in Zimbabwe: Promises of Feminism
"[An] engaging contribution to the anthropology of African feminism. Recommended."
Choice "[Women and Power in Zimbabwe] has paved the way for future research on feminism in Zimbabwe to interrogate the reconfiguration of gender roles and relations and Shona patriarchy's inherent, adaptive mechanisms that accommodate situations that perplex its internal logic."
American Anthropologist "Independence in Zimbabwe did not bring ... Read more
Choice "[Women and Power in Zimbabwe] has paved the way for future research on feminism in Zimbabwe to interrogate the reconfiguration of gender roles and relations and Shona patriarchy's inherent, adaptive mechanisms that accommodate situations that perplex its internal logic."
American Anthropologist "Independence in Zimbabwe did not bring ... Read more