Science and Technology: Where Are the Women?

ROWENA MARTINEAU discusses the absence of black women from science and engineering disciplines and occupations. Will a IN BRIE woman-friendly environment and the reconstructing of social roles e…

A Guide to Case Management with Deaf Children in Zimbabwe

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The Fight for Control of African Women's Mobility in Colonial Zimbabwe, 1900-…

As in the rest of southern Africa, physical mobility was a crucial issue in the relationship between the colonial rulers and the ruled in colonial Zimbabwe (or southern Rhodesia, as it was named by…

Gender Politics and Gender Backlash in Zimbabwe

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…

Re-framing the Prostitute Identity in Zimbabwe: An Approach to Virginia Phiri…

In Zimbabwe, as in most traditionally conservative, patriarchal and Christian dominated countries, female sex work is abhorred on moral grounds as an unbecoming means of livelihood which takes away…

Women Nationalists in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Ghana and Zimbabwe: Ca…

Nation and nationalism have been associated with masculinity. Nations and states are often envisioned through heroic narratives. According to these narratives, nations are formed through the blood …

Women's Access to and Control Over Land: The Case of Zimbabwe

It was not until the 1970s that the importance of inproving the Status of women through access to land began to be viewed as an integral part of the solution to the problems of less developed count…

Women in Zimbabwe: Postindependence Struggles

Before the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) came power in early 1980, its leaders repeatedly emphasized the party's commitment to improving the position of women in independent Zimbabwe. "For…

Exploring Structural Violence in the Context of Disability and Poverty in Zim…

Background: While it is widely assumed that disability, poverty and health are closely linked, research falls short of fully understanding the link. One approach to analysing the links between disa…

‘Disabled motherhood in an African community’: Towards an African women t…

The politics of culture, motherhood and mothering in some African communities highlight the tensions that exist in the broader feminist theology agenda. There are emerging politics between the able…