The front line runs through every woman : women & local resistance in the Zimbabwean Liberation War /

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, which is characterized here as Gendered Localised Resistanc...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: O'Gorman, Eleanor, 1968-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Woodbridge : Zimbabwe : Rochester, N.Y. : James Currey ; Weaver Press ; Boydell & Brewer, 2011.
Colección:African issues.
Temas:
Börngen, ...
1900-1999
Women and war > Zimbabwe.
Rural women > Zimbabwe > Social conditions > 20th century.
Peasants > Zimbabwe > Social conditions > 20th century.
Guerrilla warfare > Social aspects > Zimbabwe > 20th century.
Counterinsurgency > Social aspects > Zimbabwe > 20th century.
National liberation movements > Zimbabwe > History > 20th century.
Femmes et guerre > Zimbabwe.
Paysannerie > Zimbabwe > Conditions sociales > 20e siècle.
Guérilla > Aspect social > Zimbabwe > 20e siècle.
Contre-rébellion > Aspect social > Zimbabwe > 20e siècle.
Mouvements de libération nationale > Zimbabwe > Histoire > 20e siècle.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Peace.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Black Studies (Global)
National liberation movements.
Peasants > Social conditions.
Rural women > Social conditions.
Women.
Women and war.
Widerstand
Zimbabwe > History > Chimurenga War, 1966-1980 > Women.
Zimbabwe > Histoire > 1965-1980 > Femmes.
Zimbabwe.
Simbabwe
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontcover; CONTENTS; LIST OF MAPS & PHOTOGRAPHS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ACRONYMS; GLOSSARY; INTRODUCTION: Women, War Voice & Agency; 1 Situating Womenin 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: Understandingsof Agency & Consciousness; 5 Living with & within Revolution: Challenges to Unity & Community.
  • 6 The Front Line Runs Through Every Woman: Resistance & Survival by Women in Revolutionary WarCONCLUSION: Women's Agency & Voice in War Reconsidered; APPENDICES; 1 Select Chronology of War; 2 Biographical Profiles; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; Backcover.

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