Feminist literature attempting to understand the status of women in Zimbabwe has seldom considered patterns of social exclusion and the dynamics of a racialized society that institutionalized racial supremacy as an ideology for organizing social life. Even now, too often we believe, feminist...

Saliwe M. Kawewe looks at how human rights are intricately linked to economic, cultural, political and legal spheres of Zimbabwean society. She argues that poverty is rooted in the structural failure to provide sufficient mechanisms to meet the needs of the poor. Women's and children's rights...