Eleanor O' Gorman

The Front Line Runs Through Every Woman

Women & Local Resistance in the Zimbabwean Liberation War

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Produktbeschreibung

Theorizes the experiences of women in wartime, and specifically of African women during Zimbabwe's anti-colonial struggle.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 217mm x 141mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 301g
• ISBN-13: 9781847010407
• ISBN-10: 1847010407
• Artikelnr.: 33323304

Autorenporträt

Eleanor O' Gorman

Inhaltsangabe

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