Women's status and cultural expression: Changing gender relations and structural adjustment in Zimbabwe

Africa Today

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 33-

  Riphenburg, Carol J ^a  

^a Professor of Biology and Faculty Chair of Global Education   (United States)

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References (35)

1. Janet A. Giele, "Introduction: The Status of Women in Comparative Perspective," in Janet A. Giele and Audrey C. Smock, eds., Women, Roles and Status in Eight Countries (New York: John Wiley, 1977), pp. 3-31.
2. "Women and the Family," Zimbabwe Women 's Resource Center and Network News Bulletin, vol. 4, no. 1 (January 1995), pp. 14-15.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid.
5. Nancy Folbre, "Women on Their Own: Global Patterns of Female Headship," in Rita S. Gallin and Anne Ferguson, eds., The Women and International Development Annual, vol. 2 (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1991), pp. 89-126.
6. "Women and the Family."
7. Elizabeth Schmidt, Peasants, Traders and Wives: Shona Women in the History of Zimbabwe, 1870-1939 (Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann, 1992), pp. 16-19.
8. Susie M. Jacobs and Tracey Howard, "Women in Zimbabwe: State Policy and State Action," in Haleh Afshar, ed., Women, State and Ideology (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1987), pp. 31-34.
9. Women and Law in Southern Africa, Women and Law in Southern Africa Research Project, Who Pays the Price? Maintenance in Zimbabwe (Harare: Matthews Printers, 1992), pp. 3-4.
10. Alice K. Armstrong, Struggling over Scarce Resources: Women and Maintenance in Southern Africa (Harare: Women and Law in Southern Africa Research Project, 1992), p. 145.
11. Chimbga Sure, "ESAP Is Taking Its Toll on Marriages," Business Herald (Harare) (September 1994).
12. Ibid.
13. N. Kanji and N. Jadowska, "Structural Adjustment and Women in Zimbabwe," Review of African Political Economy, no. 56 (1993), pp. 11-26.
14. Nyaradzai Gumbonzuanda and Everjoice Win, eds., Strengthening Linkages for Women's Rights in Africa: A Report of Women and the Law in Development in Africa (Harare: Benaby Printing and Publishing, 1994), pp. 70-77.
15. Community Courts rank below Magistrate Courts and the High Court in Zimbabwe's judicial system. They are found in every district of the country and because of their ready accessibility are the courts most frequented by the majority of the population. See Women and Law in Southern Africa, Who Pays the Price? Maintenance in Zimbabwe, p. 41.
16. Faith Marck, "ESAP Dumps Schoolgirls on the Streets," Horizon (May 1993), p. 11.
17. Dan Tevera, "The Medicine That Might Kill the Patient," in David Simon, Wim Van Spenger, Chris Dixon, and Anders Narman, eds., Structurally Adjusted Africa: Poverty, Debt, and Basic Needs (Boulder, Colo.: Pluto Press, 1995).
18. Ibid., pp. 84-85.
19. Zimbabwe Women's Resource Center and Network, Women, Literacy, and Education, Workshop Report no. 9 (Harare, July 1993), pp. 2-3.
20. Marck, "ESAP Dumps Schoolgirls on the Street," p. 11.
21. Ibid.
22. Ibid.
23. Tevera, "The Medicine," pp. 83-84. Further discussion and statistics relating to this subject are found in Jean Lenock, Paying for Health: Poverty and Structural Adjustment in Zimbabwe (Oxford: Oxfam Publishers, 1994).
24. Tevera, "The Medicine," pp. 83-84.
25. Sally Gear, "Structural Adjustment and Gender Inequality: A Case Study of Zimbabwe's Structural Adjustment Program," M.A. dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences, University of Manchester (July 1994), pp. 53-56.
26. Zimbabwe Women's Resource Center and Network, "Economic Structural Adjustment in Zimbabwe 1990-1995: The Impact on Women," Desk study presented at the UN World Summit for Social Development (Copenhagen, March 1995), p. 16.
27. Gear, "Structural Adjustment," pp. 53-56.
28. United Nations, The World's Women 1970-90: Trends and Statistics (New York: United Nations, 1991), p. 57.
29. Bill Keller, "Zimbabwe Takes a Lead in Use of Contraceptives," New York Times (4 September 1994), p. 7.
30. Ibid.
31. United Nations, Women: Challenges to the Year 2000 (New York: United Nations, 1991), pp. 20-21.
32. "Critical Gender Issues in Zimbabwe in the Nineties," Paper presented at the Senior Policy Centre for NORAD and SIDA (Harare, 17 June 1993), p. 11.
33. Michael F. C. Bourdillon, Where Are the Ancestors? Changing Culture in Zimbabwe (Harare: University of Zimbabwe Publications, 1993), pp. 7-9.
34. Valentine Moghadam, Modernizing Women: Gender and Social Change in the Middle East (Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1993), pp. 15-16.
35. Peter Belleis, "ESAP and the Social Question," Paper presented at the annual conference of DED (a German NGO donor) (Harare, 5 September 1993), pp. 2-3.