SheMurenga : the Zimbabwean Women's Movement 1995-2000 / Shereen Essof.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Essof, Shereen.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Zimbabwe--Politics and government.

Zimbabwe.

Women--Political activity.

Women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (124 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Weaver Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book demonstrates the place of womenís 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. Shereen Essof 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

Contents:

Cover; A note about the title; Title page; Copyright page; About the author; Contents; Introduction. A GLIMPSE ON THE GROUND; Chapter 1 - WOMEN'S MOVEMENT LITERATURE:PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES; Chapter 2 - EPISTEMOLOGICAL TENSIONSMETHODOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS; Chapter 3 -THE NATIONAL CONTEXT; Chapter 4 - ZIMBABWEAN WOMEN ORGANISING:1980-1995; Chapter 5 -LAND, LAWS AND VOTES FOR WOMEN; Chapter 6 - THEORETICAL CHALLENGESIMPLICATIONS FOR THE MOVEMENT; Appendices; Appendix 1: Snapshot of the Period (1995 - 2000); Appendix 2:Women Conversants; Appendix 3:Bibliography

Appendix 4: Supplementary Material.THE ZIMBABWE WOMEN'S CHARTERBack cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781779222213

1779222211

9781779222183

1779222181

9781779222206

1779222203

OCLC:

840883782