What role did women play in nationalist and liberation struggles in Africa? In your answer, consider to what extent their roles were gendered and what were the challenges they faced as wives, mothers and activists in liberation movements?
Tanya Lyons, “Guerrilla Girls and Women in the Zimbabwean National Liberation Struggle,” in in Jean Allman, Susan Geiger, and Nakanyike Musisi, Women in African Colonial Histories, 2002, pp. 305-326.
Cora Ann Presley, “The Mau Mau Rebellion, Kikuyu Women, and Social Change”, Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue Canadienne des Études Africaines, Vol.22, No. 3, Special Issue: Current Research on African Women (1988), pp. 502-527.
Gisela Geisler, Women and the Remaking of Politics in Southern Africa: Negotiating Autonomy, Incorporation, and Representation, Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 2004, Ch.
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