Shemurenga : the Zimbabwean women's movement, 1995-2000 / Shereen Essof.

By:

Essof, Shereen

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Harare, Zimbabwe : Weaver Press, 2013Description: 1 online resource (xi, 109 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781779222206
1779222203
9781779222213
1779222211
1779222181
9781779222183

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Shemurenga.DDC classification:

305.42096891 23

LOC classification:

HQ1788 .E87 2013

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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.

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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.