This book argues that womens active participation in the public sphere in Zimbabwe is still low. The public sphere is still widely viewed as the prerogative of men. At different times in history women have struggled to take an active part of the public sphere with certain degrees of successes. With the developments of the international womens movement and current feminist discourses Zimbabwean women have gradually contested for more rights and opportunities in the predominantly male dominated domains like politics, higher education and the media. This was made possible by the...