Women in Mozambique

Gender Struggles and Gender Politics

Bibliographic Data

ID20065802
AuthorsSigne Arnfred (Roskilde University, corresponding author)
Year2010
Pages113-128
Publication date2010-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeCHAPTER
VenueAfrican Women (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan US (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1057/9780230114326_8
OpenAlexW2074061494
ISBN9780230114326
LanguageEN
Citations received15

In his opening address to the first conference of the Mozambique Women's Organization (OMM) in 1973, Samora Machel, president of Frelimo, affirmed that women's emancipation was an integral aspect of revolutionary struggle. In 1973 Frelimo (Front for the Liberation of Mozambique) was still a liberation front engaged in armed struggle against colonial rule. The northern part of Mozambique was a battleground and the first OMM conference had to be held in the Frelimo camp at Tunduru in southern Tanzania. In the OMM's present national secretariat in Maputo, a photograph of the participants of this first conference can be seen. Peasant women and women guerrillas are lined up outside the meeting hut, among them Samora Machel in battledress. The non-hierarchical atmosphere depicted in this photograph is in marked contrast to the more formal arrangements on similar later occasions.KeywordsGender IdentityGender RelationClass StruggleAgricultural CooperativeCooperative FarmerThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves

Colonialism · Emancipation · Ethnology · Front (military) · Geography · Peasant · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Tanzania · African history and culture studies · African studies and sociopolitical issues · Gender Studies · History · Law