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Gender and Land ReformThe Zimbabwe Experience |
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A groundbreaking work on the struggle for justice in the Zimbabwean land crisis.
Zimbabwe's nationalist and post-colonial ambitions have been largely defined by land reform. Allison Goebel assesses Zimbabwe's successes and failures in incorporating gender issues into the broader project of land redistribution. Based on fieldwork in the Sengezi resettlement area in east central Zimbabwe in the late 1990s and 2002, Gender and Land Reform situates gender within the larger issues of race, class, and international political economy.
Goebel examines the social forces and effects of the resettlement process, including state policy and legislation, customary norms and practices, local institutions, and ideologies and cosmologies. Her study emphasizes the strategic choices women make in new institutional and household contexts and considers the interests of poor women who have been marginalized within the land reform process.
Goebel examines the social forces and effects of the resettlement process, including state policy and legislation, customary norms and practices, local institutions, and ideologies and cosmologies. Her study emphasizes the strategic choices women make in new institutional and household contexts and considers the interests of poor women who have been marginalized within the land reform process.
Details
192 Pages, 6 x 9
ISBN 9780773529076
May 2006
Formats: Paperback, Cloth, eBook
"With wonderful detail about women's experiences, Goebel provides a rich and complex view of how women meet their needs and those of their families within Zimbabwe's land resettlement program." Sita Ranchod-Nilsson, associate professor, International Studies Program Denison University
Allison Goebel is assistant professor, women's studies and environmental studies, Queen's University.
Gender and Land Reform
Alison Goebel
Table of Contents
Figure and Table vi
Abbreviations vii
Acknowledgments ix
1 Departure Points 3
2 Gendering African Land 32
3 Marriage and Land 60
4 Married Women, the State, and Family Dynamics 76
5 Women without Men 88
6 Local Institutions, Land, and Environment 104
7 Gender Relations in Resettlement 121
8 Conclusions 140
Notes 149
References 159
Index 175
Alison Goebel
Table of Contents
Figure and Table vi
Abbreviations vii
Acknowledgments ix
1 Departure Points 3
2 Gendering African Land 32
3 Marriage and Land 60
4 Married Women, the State, and Family Dynamics 76
5 Women without Men 88
6 Local Institutions, Land, and Environment 104
7 Gender Relations in Resettlement 121
8 Conclusions 140
Notes 149
References 159
Index 175
