Abstract
This study utilizes a feminist perspective in demonstrating how gender intersects with socioeconomic forces of over a century of patriarchal environmental endeavors such as global modernization: imperialism and colonialism as conditions that have historically perpetuated environmental degradation in Zimbabwe as elsewhere in sub-Saharan Africa. The study examines how environmental policies of both pre and post independent Zimbabwe have had devastating consequences on the poor and marginalized, particularly women and girl children of this Third World in the nation. Additionally, the study proposes gender mainstreaming as a social networking model for socioeconomic and environmental sustainability through grassroots indigenous participation, capacity building, and planning and policy development entails all vertical and horizontal levels of Zimbabwean society.
Recommended Citation
Kawewe, Saliwe
(2001)
"Feminism, Children and Environmental Policy in Zimbabwe,"
Journal of African Policy Studies: Vol. 7:
No.
2, Article 2.
Available at:
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/joaps/vol7/iss2/2