Elasticity in domesticity : : White women in Rhodesian Zimbabwe, 1890-1979 /

Elasticity in domesticity : : White women in Rhodesian Zimbabwe, 1890-1979 / / by Ushehwedu Kufakurinani.

In Elasticity in Domesticity: White women in Rhodesian Zimbabwe, 1890-1979 Ushehwedu Kufakurinani examines the colonial experiences of white women in what was later called Rhodesia. He demonstrates the extent to which the state and society appropriated white women’s labour power and the workings of...

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Kufakurinani, Ushehwedu,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2018.
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:African Social Studies Series 38.
Physical Description:1 online resource (241 pages).
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Figures, Tables and Map
  • Abbreviations
  • Map of Rhodesia
  • White Women and the Unfolding Rhodesian Society
  • Domesticity, Constructions of Whiteness, and White Femininity in Southern Rhodesia
  • White Women and the Domestic Space: Housewifery in the Rhodesian Context
  • Emerging Out of the Sheaths of Domesticity? White Women in Formal Wage Employment, c. 1914–1980
  • White Women and Wage Employment
  • Mothering the Empire: Overview of White Women’s Organisations
  • White Women’s Organisations and Settler Society, 1920s–1970s
  • Encounter with Africans, 1920s–1980
  • White Women and the Homecraft Movement
  • Conclusion
  • Back Matter
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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