IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/cjssxx/v48y2022i3p527-544.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Virtue, Motherhood and Femininity: Women’s Political Legitimacy in Zimbabwe

Author

Listed:
  • Kuziwakwashe Zigomo

Abstract

Why are so few women being elected to positions of leadership in Zimbabwe? This article provides insights into the barriers that women face getting elected. In documenting the experiences of 11 female candidates who ran in the July 2018 elections in Harare, the article argues that intersectional axes of discrimination based on gender, age, class, party identification and marital status became significant barriers for these women in getting elected. The article draws on ethnographic material consisting of in-depth interviews, focus groups, participant observation and media analysis. The article concludes that the growing feminist scholarship on intersectionality which originated in the United States needs to go beyond the factors of race, class and gender, to include age, marital status and party identification particularly when considering the experiences of women of colour in the global South as reflected in the case of Zimbabwe.

Suggested Citation

  • Kuziwakwashe Zigomo, 2022. "Virtue, Motherhood and Femininity: Women’s Political Legitimacy in Zimbabwe," Journal of Southern African Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 48(3), pages 527-544, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:cjssxx:v:48:y:2022:i:3:p:527-544
    DOI: 10.1080/03057070.2022.2077018
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/03057070.2022.2077018
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/03057070.2022.2077018?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:cjssxx:v:48:y:2022:i:3:p:527-544. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/cjss .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.