CONTENTS

Editorial - Patricia McFadden (editor) 

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MAIN FEATURES

Marginality and Protest in the wilderness: The role of women in shaping the Masowe thought pattern  

1

Isabel Mukonyora 

Theorizing gender and Feminisms in Contemporary African Studies 

23

Marc Epprecht 

Leveling the Playing Field: Social Policy and Gender issues in Southern Africa 

43 

Sarah Mvududu

Customary Bride-price in Cameroon: Do women have a say? 

65

Danpullo Rabaitu Ibrahim Hamisu

Confronting Difficult Circumstances: The case of Masvingo widows 

73

Victor Ngonidzashe Muzvidziwa

HIV/AIDS, poverty and elderly women in urban Zimbabwe 

93

Gladys Bindura-Mutangadura 

YOUNG JOURNALISTS WRITE ON GENDER ISSUES

The Vulnerability of Women to Aids 

107

Juliet IIunga 

HIV/AIDS Pandemic: The negative impact on women 

111

Patricia Littiya 

Discrimination against the girl child in education: 

115

Focus on Zambia

Fenny Mwananyanda 

Should men take paternity leave 

117

Ndubi Mvula 

The success of Gender Equality in the Face of Culture 

119

Olga Manda

The Marginalisation of women in the Kgotla 

121

Bashi Letsididi 

A Day in the Life Time of an Abused women 

123

Bivan Saluseki

REFLECTIONS 

Public Opinion and Public Policy: The Location of Women in Public Voicing 

127

Luta Shaba 

No Longer Sisters? Thinking Feminism Across Difference 

135

Deborah A. Noonan 

REVIEWS

Children in our Midst: Voices of Farmworkers' children 

149

Jabu Z. Lukhele

Our Rights to be heard: Voices of Child Parliamentarians in Zimbabwe 

153

Tezita Negussie 

Black Peril, White Virtue: Sexual Crime in Southern Rhodesia 

157

Isabel Mukonyora 

Singing the Blues 

161

Anne Derges

Women in Politics and Decision Making in SADC 

165

Deborah Fry