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Running After Pills - Politics, Gender, and Contraception in Colonial Zimbabwe (Hardcover)
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Running After Pills - Politics, Gender, and Contraception in Colonial Zimbabwe (Hardcover)
Series: Social History of Africa
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Kaler examines how "modern" contraceptive technologies, such as the
pill and the Deop-Provera injection, were embroiled in gender and
generation conflicts, and in the national liberation struggle, in
Zimbabwe during the 1960s and 1970s. Based on extensive oral and
archival research, the book shows the ways in which fertility and
control over reproduction within marriage and the family influenced
the development of the "imagined community" of the nascent
Zimbabwean nation. Kaler's book reveals the numerous intricate
connections among these different domains of social life. Her book
also shows how ideas about gender influenced the opposition of
African nationalists to the new contraceptive technologies, and
played a key role in shaping the nationalists' visions for an
independent Zimbabwe. On a more general level, Kaler's book
provides a major foundation for understanding the fertility
revolution in southern Africa, as manifested in smaller family
sizes and widespread acceptance and use of contraceptives. The
enormity of change has hitherto been primarily the domain of
statisticians and demographers. By focusing on the very beginning
of the contraceptive revolution in Zimbabwe, Kaler gives
demographic change a place in a social history that highlights the
voices and experiences of those who actually participated in this
revolution.
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