The Front Line Runs through Every Woman: women and local resistance in the Zimbabwean liberation war

摘要

Eleanor O'Gorman carried out the research for this book in 1993 and wrote her thesis in 1999. As she writes, 'revisiting a PhD sounds a warning bell to writer, reader and publisher'. The resulting book might have been bogged down in the problematics of a decade ago, or have curdled or rotted with time. O'Gorman, however, turns the delay to her advantage. She gains three positives from it. First, it has allowed her to winnow out the preceding literature on women in the Zimbabwean war, a good deal of which was purely rhetorical and no longer needs to be considered.