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Article: "We Women Worked So Hard": Gender, Urbanization, and Social Reproduction in Colonial Harare, Zimbabwe, 1930-1956.(Review)
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- The Historian
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- June 22, 2001
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"We Women Worked So Hard": Gender, Urbanization, and Social Reproduction in Colonial Harare, Zimbabwe, 1930-1956. By Teresa A. Barnes. (Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann, 1999. Pp. ix, 197. $24.95.)
In this book, the author explores how urban Zimbabweans, and specifically women, used the process of "social reproduction" to manipulate gender constructions and power relationships in order to "transmit `something African' into the future" (xix). Teresa A. Barnes aims to redress what she sees as other historians' disregard for gender and preoccupation with the narrative of nationalist politics. Barnes first surveys living conditions in colonial Harare by looking at the ...