Name: Religion, Politics, Gender and Sexuality in Zimbabwe
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Religion, Politics, Gender and Sexuality in Zimbabwe

Edited By: Francis Machingura

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This book examines how religion, politics, gender, and sexuality in Zimbabwe have been gendered and sexualised to trap women in tradition and bar them from playing a participative role. Its findings cut across disciplines to empower people in theory and practice.

This book examines the interplay between religion, politics, gender and sexuality in Zimbabwe, which constitute the core of human life and behavior. More specifically, the…

This book examines the interplay between religion, politics, gender and sexuality in Zimbabwe, which constitute the core of human life and behavior. More specifically, the book looks at women’s sexuality and the body politic during and after Zimbabwe’s liberation struggle; gendered poverty, production and wealth creation; homosexuality in both the public and private spheres; religio-political and economic patronages; gendered cyber victimization; the trapping of women in gendered tradition, culture, religion and power politics; and gendered literatures and metaphors. The book’s findings are critically important, especially when it comes to African societies, where any association with any religion, political party and even social clubs has been gendered and sexualised to bar women from playing any participative role. They cut across disciplines and cultures to empower people in theory and practice.

Francis Machingura is a professor and the Director of the Centre for Postgraduate Studies at the University of Zimbabwe, where he also became a senior lecturer and the Chairperson of the Arts and Languages Education Department. He has presented papers at several international conferences and published over 100 peer reviewed, multi-disciplinary articles, chapters and books. He has extensive university teaching, research and administrative experience, and has initiated several training programmes for international postgraduate student and staff exchange programmes.

Nyasha Madzokere, Makomborero Allen Bowa, John Chawarika, Ngoni Chikwanha, Francis Machingura, Blaziu Mahaso Manobo, Reggemore Marongedze, Ivan Marowa, Beullah Matinhira, Samuel Kalizi, Wilson Zivave