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Street Remarks, Address Rights and the Urban Female: Socio-linguistics Politics of Gender in Harare
(University of Zimbabwe Publications, 2000)
This article explores and describes the socio-linguistics and cultural features of street remarks that take place between unaquainted people in the streets of Harare. Concern here is the male-to-female remarks. It seems ...
Equal Opportunities in Educational Management in Institutions of Higher Learning: An Agenda for Gender
(University of Zimbabwe Publications, 2003)
The article discusses the issue of gender disparities within education which have
been long standing in many parts of the world. The discussion centres on the need
for educational management boards to balance the selection ...
Black Female Identities in Harare: The Case of Young Women with Dreadlocks
(University of Zimbabwe Publications, 2004)
The construction of post-colonial African female identities has faced a number of
challenges. Colonial ideologies and African patriarchal traditions threaten to stifle
African women. African cities have become sites of ...
Mvana and Their Children: The Language of the Shona People as it Relates to Women and Womens’ Space
(University of Zimbabwe Publications, 2003)
Research elsewhere, within English and other languages, has shown that linguistic
behaviour is one of the keys to understanding the nature and status of women in the
attitudes transmitted through language (Frank and ...
Women in Mungoshi's Short Stories
(Prestige Books, 2006)
'The Politics of the Womb’: Women, Politics and The Environment in Pre-Colonial Chivi, Southern Zimbabwe, c.1840 to 1900
(University of Zimbabwe Publications, 2003)
Women have always played a vital role in the environment of pre-colonial Zimbabwe
especially as they constituted the backbone of traditional agriculture. Pre-colonial
studies have either ignored or understated that fact. ...
“Think Manager, Think Male”: Does It Apply to Zimbabwe ?
(University of Zimbabwe Publications, 2002)
Over the last two decades in which empirical studies on gender and leadership
styles have been undertaken, the findings have consistently confirmed that
people’s perceptions have not changed from using leadership traits, ...