"We Women Worked So Hard"

Download or read book "We Women Worked So Hard" written by Terri Barnes and published by James Currey Publishers. This book was released on 1999 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book , The Author shows how African ideas of gender in colonial Zimbabwe centrally shaped oppositional responses well before the advent of formal political nationalism. The Author argues that, urban African women and men in colonial Harare constracted complex yet coherent identities and durable hopes for themselves in broad moments of gendered conflict and consensus.