Women, Resistance and Africa: Armed Struggles in Zimbabwe, South Africa and Eritrea

Israel, M.ORCID: 0000-0002-1263-8699, Lyons, T. and Mason, C. (2002) Women, Resistance and Africa: Armed Struggles in Zimbabwe, South Africa and Eritrea. Humanity & Society, 26 (3). pp. 196-213.

Abstract

The three Australian-based authors have completed doctorates on African liberation movements. Following fieldwork in Eritrea, Zimbabwe and among South African exiles in the United Kingdom, we each reached a similar conclusion - that the role that women played in African national liberation struggles had been inadequately acknowledged. We were concerned that dominant interpretations of the content and context of resistance had excluded non-combat activities necessary to sustain military action. Drawing on the work on resistance by Foucault and Scott, we became interested in extending the range of theoretical material available to those engaged in analyzing the relationship between gender and national liberation in the African context

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Copyright:	© 2002 by Association for Humanistic Sociology
URI:	http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/48768

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