Abstract
Drawing on a feminist institutional perspective combined with nego-feminism, this article explores the ways in which women in a mining community in Zimbabwe experience and access power within a patriarchal social structure. Women vary in their ability to access power depending on their societal and personal characteristics, and in particular on their good behaviour, seen as a form of ‘doing gender’. Some women are able to strike a patriarchal bargain, gaining episodic power over and power to (and power with) by adhering to societal expectations of good behaviour, although ultimately not challenging the existing male-dominated structures.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 86-105 |
Number of pages | 20 |
Journal | Journal of Political Power |
Volume | 13 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2 Jan 2020 |
Keywords
- Power over
- Zimbabwe
- doing gender
- patriarchal bargain
- power to