2,011
Views
12
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Article

Eternal mothers, whores or witches: the oddities of being a woman in politics in Zimbabwe

List of references

  • Austen RA (1993) ‘The moral economy of witchcraft: An essay in comparative history’ in J Camaroff and JL Camaroff (eds) Modernity and Its Malcontents: Ritual and Power in Postcolonial Africa, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  • Bourdieu P (2001) Masculine Domination, Cambridge: Polity Press.
  • Chigumadzi P (2018) These Bones Will Rise Again, Auckland Park: Jacana Media.
  • Gervais SJ, Vescio TK, Forster J, Maass A and Suitner C (2012) ‘Seeing women as objects: The sexual body part recognition bias’, European Journal of Social Psychology, 42, 6, 743–753. doi: 10.1002/ejsp.1890
  • Gramsci A (1971) Selections from the Prison Notebooks, New York: International Publishers.
  • Hungwe C (2006) ‘Putting them in their place: ‘Respectable’ and ‘unrespectable’ women in Zimbabwe gender struggles’, available at: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Putting-Them-in-Their-Place%3A-'Respectable'-and-in-Hungwe/9d574f096a2cb806e73f8250f8884e07098a85fe, sites accessed October 23, 2019.
  • Lubombo M (2018) ‘Perfidious ubuntisation of ZANU-PF succession politics: A discursive analysis of Grace Mugabe’s campaign against Joice Mujuru and Emmerson Mnangagwa’, in Ubuntu: Journal of Conflict and Social Transformation, 7, 1, 117–133. doi: 10.31920/2050-4950/2018/v7n1a6
  • Magaisa A (2017) ‘The sexualisation of women in Zimbabwean politics’, available at: https://www.bigsr.co.uk/single-post/2017/10/28/Big-Saturday-Read-the-sexualisation-of-women-in-Zimbabwean-politics, site accessed October 23, 2019.
  • Maphosa M, Tshuma N and G Maziva (2015) ‘Participation of women in Zimbabwean politics and the mirage of gender equity’, in Ubuntu: Journal of conflict and Social Transformation, 4, 2, 127–159.
  • Masiya T and G Maringira (2017) ‘The use of heroism in the Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) intra-party factional dynamics’, in Strategic Review for Southern Africa, 39, 2, 3–24.
  • Misihairabwi P and Kwinjeh G (2005) ‘ZANU PF’s latest gimmick: Women’, available at: https://allafrica.com/stories/200502140743.html, accessed, 3 March 2020.
  • Mtenje AL (2019) ‘Something radical: Problematising the masculine state in Tendai Huchu's The Hairdresser of Harare’, in Journal of the African Literature Association, 13, 2, 172–187 doi: 10.1080/21674736.2019.1576307
  • Mudiwa R (2017) ‘On Grace Mugabe: Coups, phalluses, and what is being defended’, available at: https://www.africasacountry.com/2017/11/on-grace-mugabe-coups-phalluses-and-what-is-being-defended, site accessed October 23, 2019.
  • Ncube G (2019) ‘Women in North African literature’, in O Yacob-Haliso and T Folosa (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of African Women’s Studies, New York: Palgrave-Macmillan.
  • Ncube G & Chinouriri B (2016) ‘Humour as support and/or opposition: Nicknaming political personalities and movements in post-independent Zimbabwe’, in IGAMA: African Journal of Onomastics, 1, 1, 1–12.
  • Ncube G & Gwatirisa Y (2020) ‘Discrimination against female politicians on social media: An analysis of tweets in the run-up to the July 2018 Harmonised Elections in Zimbabwe’ in M Ndlela & W Mano (eds) Social Media and Elections in Africa, Volume 2, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Nyambi O (2016) ‘Of weevils and gamatox: Titles, names and nicknames in ZANU PF succession politics’, in African Identities, 14, 1, 59–76. doi: 10.1080/14725843.2015.1100109
  • Riessman CK (1994) Narrative Analysis, London: Sage Publications.
  • Wesly JK (2003) ‘Exotic dancing and the negotiation of identity: the multiple uses of body technologies’, in Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 32, 643–669. doi: 10.1177/0891241603257595
  • Zimbabwe National Statistical Agency (2016) ‘Gender Datasets’, available at: http://www.nada.zimstat.co.zw/nada/index.php/catalog/GEN, site accessed March 3, 2020.

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.