Women and Power in Zimbabwe
Promises of Feminism
Rhodesia's rebirth as Zimbabwe and Robert Mugabe's rise to power dashed the hopes of women who had imagined independence as a road to gender equality and economic justice. Using history, literature, participant observation, and interviews, Carolyn Martin Shaw draws on thirty years of experience to survey Zimbabwean feminisms from the colonial era to today. Her analysis shows how actions as seemingly disparate as an ability to bake scones during the revolution and achieving power within a marriage in fact represent complex sources of female empowerment. She also presents the ways women across Zimbabwean society--rural and urban, professional a…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-252-09772-0
- EAN: 9780252097720
- Produktnummer: 20437348
- Verlag: University of Illinois Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 216 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 3'020 KB
Über den Autor
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 .
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