Women and Power in Zimbabwe Martin Webber fear and sadness - and

fear and sadness - and lots of questions too

she traces their sporadic surfacing in ''Cane

and the ways recent crises have amplified their struggles

While culturally constructed pressures and the decline in institutional religion have led to the suppression of spiritual expression

and in Parliament and the national news

Women and Power in Zimbabwe Martin Webber fear and sadness - andThe revolt against white rule in Rhodesia nurtured incipient local feminisms in women who imagined independence as a road to gender equity and economic justice. But the country's rebirth as Zimbabwe and Robert Mugabe's rise to power dashed these hopes. Using history, literature, participant observation, and interviews, Carolyn Martin Shaw surveys Zimbabwean feminisms from the colonial era to today. She examines how actions as clearly disparate as