Chihera in Zimbabwe A Radical African Feminist Principle
Zimbabwean social media has been awash with images of a woman character, spirit, or concept called Chihera. Traditionally, a woman descending from the Mhofu (Eland) lineage/totem is known as Chihera. In the cumulative tradition of the Shona (a Zimbabwean ethnic group), Chihera is a fiercely independ...
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| Language: | English |
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Palgrave Macmillan
2023, 2023
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2023 |
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Table of Contents:
- Part V Confounding Chihera: Patriarchy Fights Back
- 16 The Chihera Mystique in Selected Writings by African Women Theologians
- 17 Chihera as a Game Changer in the African Churches’ Masculine Leadership Hierarchy: A Case Study of the Apostolic Faith Mission in Zimbabwe
- 18 Chihera’s Matriarchal Traits: A Mirror of Reverse Patriarchy
- 19 Implications of Consolidating Patriarchy Through Exploitation of “Better” Ways of Conveying Disagreeable Practices to Chihera, the Epitome of Empowered Women in Zimbabwe
- Introducing a Radical African Indigenous Feminist Principle: Chihera in Zimbabwe
- Part I Chihera in the Spiritual Hierarchy: Traversing Patriarchy
- 2 Chihera in the Ancestral Realm: Exploring Female Ancestry Among the Hera People in Buhera, Zimbabwe
- 3 VaChihera: A Profile of Ndakaziva
- 4 Chihera: Renegotiating the Status of Women in Shona Indigenous Culture in Zimbabwe
- 5 Chiheras’ Twenty-First-Century Profiling: Re-converging from Past Divisions in Monolithic Defying of Traditional Patriarchal Culture
- Part II From the mouths of Chiheras and Mhofuyokuno: Disrupting Patriarchy
- 6 Ndini Chihera (I Am Chihera): An African Womanist Perspective on the Chihera Identity in Zimbabwe
- 7 Ndini Baba vaChihera (I Am Chihera’s Father): A Narrative of the Chihera Persona
- 8 “Please Understand Me, I Am Chihera”: Issues of Character and Traits Among the Indigenous Zimbabwean Women of the Chihera Totem
- 9 Chihera’s Story: Keeping Ubuntu Alive Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic
- 10 Revisiting Totemic Praise Names: Chihera as Metaphor of Addressing Gender-Based and Sexual Violence in Post-colonial Zimbabwe
- Part III Subverting Patriarchy: Chihera Persona in the Film Industry and Advocacy for Gender Parity
- 11 Chihera in Film: The Subversion of Patriarchal and Customary Laws of Inheritance as Depicted in the Zimbabwean Feature Film Neria (1991)
- 12 Genderising the Social Media: Analysing Chihera’s Antics in the Zimbabwean Context
- 13 Socially Constructed Discourse on Chihera: An Asset or Liability in Zimbabwe’s Envisioned Gender Equal Society
- Part IV Chihera Prototype Navigating the Zimbabwean Genderised Economic Sector
- 14 “If only it wasn’t for me” Chihera as Head of the Family in a Time of Economic Crisis
- 15 Patriarchy and Disability: A Culture of Ubuntu, African Women with Disabilities and Sustainable Livelihoods in Matetsi Community, Zimbabwe