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Gender Politics and Gender Backlash in Zimbabwe

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In sub-Saharan Africa, the history of women’s involvement in liberation
struggles and the realignment of gender relations following
independence have long been characterized as a kind of gender
backlash. Whether national independence from colonial or settler rule was achieved in connection with nationalistmovements or armed struggles,
the scenarios of gender relations are remarkably similar. Particular groups
of women are mobilized during the struggle for national liberation, their
issues become part of the liberation movements’ agendas, but following
the achievement of independence, these same women are rapidly
demobilized and the issues they raised during the national liberation
struggle get marginalized amid competing and “more urgent” state
priorities.

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Gender Politics
Gender Backlash
National Independence
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