The front line runs through every woman : women & local resistanc e in the Zimbabwean Liberation War / Eleanor O'Gorman.
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TextSeries: African issuesPublication details: Woodbridge : James Currey ; Zimbabwe : Weaver Press ; Ro chester, N.Y. : Boydell & Brewer, 2011.Description: xv, 192 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cmISBN: - 9781847010407 (pbk. : James Currey)
- 1847010407 (pbk. : James Currey)
- Women and local resistance in the Zimbabwean Liberation War
- Women and war -- Zimbabwe
- Rural women
- 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
- Zimbabwe -- history -- Chimurenga War, 1966-1980 -- Women
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"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 Revol ution: Battlefront Myths & Homefront Lives -- Re-Framing Women's Revolu tionary Lives: Women, Gender & Local Resistance -- Setting the Fieldwor k Context: Zimbabwe as Arena, Chiweshe as Locale -- Women's Perceptions of Revolutionary Participation: Understandings of Agency & Consciousne ss -- Living with & within Revolution: Challenges to Unity & Community -- The Front Line Runs Through Every Woman: Resistance & Survival by W omen in Revolutionary War -- Conclusion: Women's Agency & Voice in War Reconsidered.
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