Running After Pills: Politics, Gender, and Contraception in Colonial Zimbabwe
Kaler examines how modern contraceptive technologies, such as the pill and the Deop-Provera injection, were embroiled in gender and generation conflicts in Zimbabwe during the 1960s and 1970s.

Kaler examines how modern contraceptive technologies, such as the pill and the Deop-Provera injection, were embroiled in gender and generation conflicts, and in the national liberation struggle, in Zimbabwe during the 1960s and 1970s. Based on extensive oral and archival research, the book shows the ways in which fertility and control over reproduction within marriage and the family influenced the development of the imagined community of the nascent Zimbabwean nation.

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Running After Pills: Politics, Gender, and Contraception in Colonial Zimbabwe
Kaler examines how modern contraceptive technologies, such as the pill and the Deop-Provera injection, were embroiled in gender and generation conflicts in Zimbabwe during the 1960s and 1970s.

Kaler examines how modern contraceptive technologies, such as the pill and the Deop-Provera injection, were embroiled in gender and generation conflicts, and in the national liberation struggle, in Zimbabwe during the 1960s and 1970s. Based on extensive oral and archival research, the book shows the ways in which fertility and control over reproduction within marriage and the family influenced the development of the imagined community of the nascent Zimbabwean nation.

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Running After Pills: Politics, Gender, and Contraception in Colonial Zimbabwe

Running After Pills: Politics, Gender, and Contraception in Colonial Zimbabwe

by Amy Kaler
Running After Pills: Politics, Gender, and Contraception in Colonial Zimbabwe

Running After Pills: Politics, Gender, and Contraception in Colonial Zimbabwe

by Amy Kaler

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Kaler examines how modern contraceptive technologies, such as the pill and the Deop-Provera injection, were embroiled in gender and generation conflicts in Zimbabwe during the 1960s and 1970s.

Kaler examines how modern contraceptive technologies, such as the pill and the Deop-Provera injection, were embroiled in gender and generation conflicts, and in the national liberation struggle, in Zimbabwe during the 1960s and 1970s. Based on extensive oral and archival research, the book shows the ways in which fertility and control over reproduction within marriage and the family influenced the development of the imagined community of the nascent Zimbabwean nation.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780325070445
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 12/22/2003
Series: Social History of Africa
Pages: 264
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.62(d)

About the Author

Amy Kaler is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at University of Alberta.

Table of Contents

IllustrationsFIGURES2.1Attendance at All FPAR Clinics, October 1976 to January 1980 532.2Rhodesian Government Appropriations to Fund FPAR, 1971–80, in Rhodesian Dollars 712.3Growth in Number of Fieldworkers Employed by FPAR, 1968–79 72TABLES1.1African-White Discrepancies in Rhodesia, 1977 52.1Income from the National Government as a Percentage of Total FPAR Income, 1965–80 512.2Growth of FPAR's Educational Outreach Work, 1966–79 542.3Distribution of the Pill and Depo-Provera Through Salisbury [Harare] Municipal Clinics, 1973–78 69
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