This profile, like the 1998 publication bearing the same name, continues
to situate the analysis of the situation of Zimbabwean
women in a gender analysis framework which does not look at
women in isolation, but seeks to make visible the differences between
the sexes due to class, race, ethnicity, age, disability and sexual orientation.
But more than just “making visible” the gains and losses of
women and girls in relation to men and boys, this new review also
seeks to ground gender as a tool of analysis in the prevailing political
ideological framework of Zimbabwe, which is a key determinant in the
outcomes; be it significant and sustainable gender justice, or, patchy
and inconsistent measures to achieve gender justice which are subject
to the swings between various forms of liberalism and conservatism –
of a gender analysis approach. This profile also reviews progress and
retrogression in the status of women in Zimbabwe between 1998 and
2004. |
