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The Overthrow of Robert Mugabe: Gender, Coups, and Diplomats argues the 2017 coup that ousted long time Zimbabwean president Robert Gabriel Mugabe, and the generality of coups, cannot be accurately and rigorously understood without examining the crucial role of gender and women''s politics in military seizures of power. Tendi''s findings show that the politics of gender and women pervade military coup causes, dynamics, justifications, and international responses to coups. Contrary to influential representations of Zimbabwe''s 2017 coup and other recent coups as markedly different from past coups, Tendi draws on deep gendered histories of military coups in Africa to argue that in reality there are significant continuities in coup characteristics across time. This highly original account of the 2017 Zimbabwean coup identifies the motives, dynamics, and trigger of the coup and demonstrates the centrality of gender and women''s politics in these factors and processes. Additionally, despite

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      Publisher: Oxford University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 2/15/2025
      ISBN13: 9780198921950, 978-0198921950
      ISBN10: 0198921950
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      Book Synopsis
      The Overthrow of Robert Mugabe: Gender, Coups, and Diplomats argues the 2017 coup that ousted long time Zimbabwean president Robert Gabriel Mugabe, and the generality of coups, cannot be accurately and rigorously understood without examining the crucial role of gender and women''s politics in military seizures of power. Tendi''s findings show that the politics of gender and women pervade military coup causes, dynamics, justifications, and international responses to coups. Contrary to influential representations of Zimbabwe''s 2017 coup and other recent coups as markedly different from past coups, Tendi draws on deep gendered histories of military coups in Africa to argue that in reality there are significant continuities in coup characteristics across time. This highly original account of the 2017 Zimbabwean coup identifies the motives, dynamics, and trigger of the coup and demonstrates the centrality of gender and women''s politics in these factors and processes. Additionally, despite

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