The Front Line Runs through Every Woman: Women and Local Resistance in the Zimbabwean Liberation War

Theorizes the experiences of women in wartime, and specifically of African women during Zimbabwe's anti-colonial struggle.

A Zimbabwe-specific study, focusing on the lives of women in a small locale (Chiweshe) during the anti-colonial insurgency, this book is also a challenge to established and still current modes of thought and research orientationswhich over-simplify the complex realities women face in the full range of violent conflicts, both past and present. By contextualizing the voice...