Guns and Guerilla Girls: Women in the Zimbabwean National Liberation Struggle

TitleGuns and Guerilla Girls: Women in the Zimbabwean National Liberation Struggle
Publication TypeBook
Year of Publication2004
AuthorsLyons, Tanya
Number of Pages338
PublisherAfrica World Press
CityTrenton, NJ
Abstract

This volume 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 women’s 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 women’s actual experiences of guerilla fighting. This 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 volume's aim is to create a dialogue within postcolonial discourse in order to facilitate understanding and healing vis-à-vis women’s war time experiences. 

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