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Guns and Guerilla Women in the Zimbabwean Liberation Struggle is about women guerilla fighters in the Zimbabwean National Liberation war (1965-1980). It provides an examination of the plethora of representations of women who joined the struggle for national independence and contributes to a feminist understanding of Zimbabwe and African history and politics. Most previously published accounts about womens roles in the Zimbabwean liberation struggle have tended to focus on their "feminine" or "natural" roles as mothers or alternatively on the post-independence concerns expressed by women in Zimbabwe. Both of these views have ignored and excluded womens actual experiences of guerilla fighting. Guns and Guerilla Girls is the first text to both challenge the representations of "women as warriors" and provide a space for women ex-combatants in Zimbabwe to re-present their past and their histories. The text is also original in its aim to create a dialogue within postcolonial discourse in order to facilitate understanding and healing vis--vis womens war time experiences. The book deals specifically with the case of the Zimbabwean liberation struggle, and provides an in-depth analysis of t

Author

Tanya Lyons

Publisher

Africa World ; Turnaround

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9781592211678

Subjects

History, Humanities