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Book SynopsisIn Elasticity in Domesticity: White women in Rhodesian Zimbabwe, 1890-1979 Ushehwedu Kufakurinani examines the colonial experiences of white women in what was later called Rhodesia. He demonstrates the extent to which the state and society appropriated white women’s labour power and the workings of the domestic ideology in shaping white women’s experiences. The author also discusses how and to what extent white women appropriated and deployed the domestic ideology. Institutional as well as personal archives were consulted which include official correspondence, diaries, personal letters, newsletters, magazines, commissions of inquiry, among other sources.
Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Map of Rhodesia Introduction: White Women and the Unfolding Rhodesian Society 1 Domesticity, Constructions of Whiteness, and White Femininity in Southern Rhodesia 2 White Women and the Domestic Space: Housewifery in the Rhodesian Context 3 Emerging Out of the Sheaths of Domesticity? White Women in Formal Wage Employment, c. 1914–1980 4 White Women and Wage Employment 5 Mothering the Empire: Overview of White Women’s Organisations 6 White Women’s Organisations and Settler Society, 1920s–1970s 7 Encounter with Africans, 1920s–1980 8 White Women and the Homecraft Movement Conclusion Appendix A Appendix B Bibliography Index
