Author : Shereen Essof,
Publisher : Weaver Press
ISBN 13 : 1779222211
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (792 download)
Book Synopsis SheMurenga: The Zimbabwean Women's Movement 1995-2000 by : Shereen Essof,
Download or read book SheMurenga: The Zimbabwean Women's Movement 1995-2000 written by Shereen Essof, and published by Weaver Press. This book was released on 2013-01-16 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book demonstrates the place of womens movements during a defining period of contemporary Zimbabwe. The government of Robert Mugabe may have been as firmly in power in 2000 as it was in 1995, but the intervening years saw severe economic crisis, mass strikes and protests, the start of land occupations, intervention in the war in the DRC, and the rise of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change. Shereen Essof shows how Zimbabwean women crafted responses to these and other events, and aimed for a feminist agenda that would prioritise the interests of the rural and urban poor. Rejecting both the strictures of patriarchy and the orthodoxies of established feminism, she demands that Zimbabwes women be heard in their own voices and in their own contexts. In doing so she writes a book that combines scholarly integrity with a wild, joyous cry for liberation.