The front line runs through every woman : women & local resistance in the Zimbabwean Liberation War /
Women and local resistance in the Zimbabwean Liberation War
Eleanor O'Gorman.
- Woodbridge : Zimbabwe : Rochester, N.Y. : James Currey ; Weaver Press ; Boydell & Brewer, 2011.
- xv, 192 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
- African issues .
"Communal Area of Chiweshe, 80 kilometres north of Harare"--P. 7. "Protected villages (PVs)"--p. 91.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-186) and index.
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.
9781847010407 (pbk. : James Currey) 1847010407 (pbk. : James Currey) 9781779221568 (pbk. : Weaver Press) 1779221568 (pbk. : Weaver Press)
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Women and war--Zimbabwe. Rural women--Social conditions--Zimbabwe--20th century. Peasants--Social conditions--Zimbabwe--20th century. Guerrilla warfare--Social aspects--Zimbabwe--20th century. Counterinsurgency--Social aspects--Zimbabwe--20th century. National liberation movements--History--Zimbabwe--20th century.
Zimbabwe--History--Women.--Chimurenga War, 1966-1980