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The front line runs through every woman women & local resistance in the Zimbabwean liberation war created by Eleanor O'gorman

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: (African issues)Publication details: Suffolk James Currey 2011Description: 192 pagesContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781847010407 (James Currey paper)
  • 9781779221568 (Weaver Press paper)
Subject(s):
Contents:
Introduction: Women, War Voice & Agency; 1 Situating Women in Revolution: Battlefront Myths & Homefront Lies; 2 Re-framing Women's Revolutionary, Lives: Women, Gender & Local Resistance; 3 Setting the Fieldwork Context: Zimbabwe as Arena, Chiweshe as Locale; 4 Women's Perceptions of Revolutionary Participation: Understandings of Agency & Consciousness; 5 Living with & within Revolution: Challenges to Unity & Community. 6 The Front Line Runs Through Every Woman: Resistance & Survival by Woman in Revolutionary WarConclusion: Women's Agency & Voice in War Reconsidered
Summary: Zimbabwe-specific study, focusing on the lives of women in a small locale (Chiweshe) during the anti-colonial insurgency, this book is also a challenge to established and still current modes of thought and research orientations which over-simplify the complex realities women face in the full range of violent conflicts, both past and present. By contextualizing the voices of women of Chiweshe, not only is an important and under-developed aspect of Zimbabwean and African history revealed, but a new approach to comprehending the highly-tensioned lives of women in war is presented
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Book Book Main Library Open Shelf DT2990 OGO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 150298 Available BK136870
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Women, War Voice & Agency; 1 Situating Women in Revolution: Battlefront Myths & Homefront Lies; 2 Re-framing Women's Revolutionary, Lives: Women, Gender & Local Resistance; 3 Setting the Fieldwork Context: Zimbabwe as Arena, Chiweshe as Locale; 4 Women's Perceptions of Revolutionary Participation: Understandings of Agency & Consciousness; 5 Living with & within Revolution: Challenges to Unity & Community. 6 The Front Line Runs Through Every Woman: Resistance & Survival by Woman in Revolutionary WarConclusion: Women's Agency & Voice in War Reconsidered

Zimbabwe-specific study, focusing on the lives of women in a small locale (Chiweshe) during the anti-colonial insurgency, this book is also a challenge to established and still current modes of thought and research orientations which over-simplify the complex realities women face in the full range of violent conflicts, both past and present. By contextualizing the voices of women of Chiweshe, not only is an important and under-developed aspect of Zimbabwean and African history revealed, but a new approach to comprehending the highly-tensioned lives of women in war is presented

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