The Front Line Runs Through Every Woman - Women & Local Resistance in the Zimbabwean Liberation War

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

List of contents

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

About the author

Eleanor O' Gorman

Summary

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

Product details

• Authors: Eleanor O' Gorman, Eleanor O' Gorman, Eleanor O` Gorman, Eleanor O'Gorman
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.10.2011
• EAN: 9781847010407
• ISBN: 978-1-84701-040-7
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 141 mm x 217 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 301 g
• Series: African Issues; African Issues (Paperback); African Issues; African Issues (Paperback)
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories