Kate Law
Biographic Data
| ID | 200750 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kate Law |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kate |
| FAMILY NAME | Law |
| SIGNATURE | LAW K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Free State |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2925-201X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Reworlding feminism and social movements from the Global South
Based on the Womandla! Feminism and Social Movements in the Global South Online Seminar Series, this special issue originated in a conference that was to be held in South Africa but became caught up in a moment of ‘reworlding’ experienced globally. This special issue centres women’s experiences of gender in the Global South: editors and authors embrace both the feminist historical tradition and the theoretical insights of decolonial feminisms to …
Women's Activism in the British Anti-Apartheid Movement, 1986–1994
Laying the groundwork for a new way to think through the history of British anti-apartheid activity, this article examines the liminal space between anti-racist and feminist activity through a case-study of Leeds Women Against Apartheid. Founded in 1986, LWAA were comprised of a dedicated nucleus of activists, and were concerned with imbuing international solidarity with a tangible meaning. To LWAA, solidarity had a quantifiable basis that could …
We Wanted to be Free as a Nation, and We Wanted to be Free as Women’: Decolonisation, Nationalism and Women's Liberation in Zimbabwe, 1979–85 1
This article examines one of the most intractable problems that a newly independent nation encounters; the dissonance between the rhetoric of a revolutionary movement and its subsequent treatment of women in nationalist and supposedly decolonial projects. In drawing on interviews and archival research carried out in periodicals, newspapers and Hansard, the article examines the optimism, disillusionment and betrayal of Zimbabwe's women in the firs…
Pattern, Puzzle, and Peculiarity: Rhodesia’s UDI and Decolonisation in Southern Africa
On 18 April 1980, the Union Jack was finally lowered at Government House, Harare. Presiding over this muted piece of imperial theatre, Lord Soames, who had been appointed interim governor of Rhodes
From Settlers to Strays: White Zimbabwean women, historical memory and belonging in the diasporac.1980-2010
Based on interviews with thirty women, this article examines white attitudes to the coming of Zimbabwe's independence in 1980. As it details, many of the interviewees construct problematic versions of the past, foregrounding what Annie E. Coombes has termed the ‘deceptively benign’ nature of settler colonialism. Through an examination of the context in which the interviews were conducted, the article comments on the mobilisation of certain post-c…
Mostly we are White and Alone: Identity, Anxiety and the Past in Some White Zimbabwean Memoirs
Using the space created by the land invasions, over the last ten years or so there has been a proliferation of exile memoirs written by white Zimbabweans living in the diaspora, which foreground colonial nostalgia and postcolonial anxiety. This article profiles elements of this latest wave of "white (female) writing", arguing that writers such as Alexandra Fuller construct their own personal narratives based on an extremely teleological and narro…
Shereen Essof. Shemurenga: The Zimbabwe Women's Movement 1995–2000
Afrikanerdom, Archives, and Change: The Archive for Contemporary Affairs at the University of the Free State, South Africa
This article examines some of the core holdings within the Archive for Contemporary Affairs at the University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa. Prominent amongst this material are the papers of the National Party (NP), the political party that formalised the structures of apartheid. Paying particular attention to the papers of what Hermann Giliomee has termed ‘The Last Afrikaner Leaders’ alongside recently acquired material concernin…
Plundering the Past: History and Nation in Mugabe's Zimbabwe
In recent years in postcolonial Zimbabwe there has been a recasting of the past. ZANU(PF), under the increasingly authoritarian leadership of Robert Mugabe, have sought to monopolise and shape domi
Cocktail hour under the tree of forgetfulness; One hundred and four horses: A memoir of farm and family, Africa and exile; Roses under the miobo trees: an English girl in Rhodesia
In recent years there has been an explosion of memoirs written by whites about colonial Zimbabwe. Spearheaded by journalists such as Peter Godwin, who to date has published three memoirs/travelogue
Rhodesia's Unilateral Declaration of Independence: An International History
The Unbearable Whiteness of Being: Farmers' Voices From Zimbabwe
Rory Pilossof (Harare, Weaver Press and Claremont, UCT Press, 2012), vii +266 pp, £22.95, paperback, ISBN 978-1-77922-169-8 (Zimbabwe) 978-1-92409-997-9 (South Africa) The iniquitous pattern of lan
Even a labourer is worthy of his hire: How much more a wife? ’ Gender and the Contested Nature of Domesticity in Colonial Zimbabwe, c.1945–1978
This article seeks to further examine existing gender and empire debates in the British Empire, by focusing on the changing nature of gender relations in colonial Zimbabwe. To establish the changing ideological framework of the ‘Federation’ era this paper first analyses contested representations of white women in the print media, demonstrating within the broader political discourses the erosion of ‘suitable’ gender norms in the post-Second World …
The White Rhodesians: Settlers, or Expatriates
Making Marmalade and Imperial Mentalities: The case of a Colonial wife
Miriam Cheales was born in Southern Rhodesia on the 28 th October 1914 at Lincoln Farm in Beatrice, just south of Salisbury to Alan and Irene Cheales. They returned to England to deal with family business in the early 1920s and Miriam was brought up in rural Lincolnshire. After completing her education she undertook some training in basic physiotherapy, and served as a nurse during World War Two. In September 1945 Miriam married Frank Staunton. A…
The Wild West World of BEE”: Black Economic Empowerment Reviewed
Liberal Women in Rhodesia: A Report on the Mitchell Papers, University of Cape Town
The Mitchell collection at the Manuscripts and Archives Department of The University of Cape Town (UCT) consists of the papers of Diana Mary Mitchell, a leading white Rhodesian liberal in the 1960s and 1970s as well as private papers of some other politically active Rhodesians, such as Morris Hirsch, Pat Bashford and Allan Savory. This report presents the Mitchell collection as an instrument to investigate issues of agency by liberal White Rhodes…
Reflections Across Boundaries: The European Nursing Module
This article explores the development and implementation of an internationally agreed module, the European Nursing Module. This module comprises 4 weeks of student learning and is coordinated by a network of 26 colleges in 14 European countries. It is hoped that through the module, students are helped to acquire cultural sensitivity, which leads toward the development of a culturally competent health care practitioner. The development of the modu…
Rhodesia's Unilateral Declaration of Independence: An International History
Women's Activism in the British Anti-Apartheid Movement, 1986–1994
Laying the groundwork for a new way to think through the history of British anti-apartheid activity, this article examines the liminal space between anti-racist and feminist activity through a case-study of Leeds Women Against Apartheid. Founded in 1986, LWAA were comprised of a dedicated nucleus of activists, and were concerned with imbuing international solidarity with a tangible meaning. To LWAA, solidarity had a quantifiable basis that could …
We Wanted to be Free as a Nation, and We Wanted to be Free as Women’: Decolonisation, Nationalism and Women's Liberation in Zimbabwe, 1979–85 1
This article examines one of the most intractable problems that a newly independent nation encounters; the dissonance between the rhetoric of a revolutionary movement and its subsequent treatment of women in nationalist and supposedly decolonial projects. In drawing on interviews and archival research carried out in periodicals, newspapers and Hansard, the article examines the optimism, disillusionment and betrayal of Zimbabwe's women in the firs…
From Settlers to Strays: White Zimbabwean women, historical memory and belonging in the diasporac.1980-2010
Based on interviews with thirty women, this article examines white attitudes to the coming of Zimbabwe's independence in 1980. As it details, many of the interviewees construct problematic versions of the past, foregrounding what Annie E. Coombes has termed the ‘deceptively benign’ nature of settler colonialism. Through an examination of the context in which the interviews were conducted, the article comments on the mobilisation of certain post-c…
Mostly we are White and Alone: Identity, Anxiety and the Past in Some White Zimbabwean Memoirs
Using the space created by the land invasions, over the last ten years or so there has been a proliferation of exile memoirs written by white Zimbabweans living in the diaspora, which foreground colonial nostalgia and postcolonial anxiety. This article profiles elements of this latest wave of "white (female) writing", arguing that writers such as Alexandra Fuller construct their own personal narratives based on an extremely teleological and narro…
Pattern, Puzzle, and Peculiarity: Rhodesia’s UDI and Decolonisation in Southern Africa
On 18 April 1980, the Union Jack was finally lowered at Government House, Harare. Presiding over this muted piece of imperial theatre, Lord Soames, who had been appointed interim governor of Rhodes
Even a labourer is worthy of his hire: How much more a wife? ’ Gender and the Contested Nature of Domesticity in Colonial Zimbabwe, c.1945–1978
This article seeks to further examine existing gender and empire debates in the British Empire, by focusing on the changing nature of gender relations in colonial Zimbabwe. To establish the changing ideological framework of the ‘Federation’ era this paper first analyses contested representations of white women in the print media, demonstrating within the broader political discourses the erosion of ‘suitable’ gender norms in the post-Second World …
Reflections Across Boundaries: The European Nursing Module
This article explores the development and implementation of an internationally agreed module, the European Nursing Module. This module comprises 4 weeks of student learning and is coordinated by a network of 26 colleges in 14 European countries. It is hoped that through the module, students are helped to acquire cultural sensitivity, which leads toward the development of a culturally competent health care practitioner. The development of the modu…
Making Marmalade and Imperial Mentalities: The case of a Colonial wife
Miriam Cheales was born in Southern Rhodesia on the 28 th October 1914 at Lincoln Farm in Beatrice, just south of Salisbury to Alan and Irene Cheales. They returned to England to deal with family business in the early 1920s and Miriam was brought up in rural Lincolnshire. After completing her education she undertook some training in basic physiotherapy, and served as a nurse during World War Two. In September 1945 Miriam married Frank Staunton. A…
The Wild West World of BEE”: Black Economic Empowerment Reviewed
Liberal Women in Rhodesia: A Report on the Mitchell Papers, University of Cape Town
The Mitchell collection at the Manuscripts and Archives Department of The University of Cape Town (UCT) consists of the papers of Diana Mary Mitchell, a leading white Rhodesian liberal in the 1960s and 1970s as well as private papers of some other politically active Rhodesians, such as Morris Hirsch, Pat Bashford and Allan Savory. This report presents the Mitchell collection as an instrument to investigate issues of agency by liberal White Rhodes…
Even a labourer is worthy of his hire: How much more a wife? ’ Gender and the Contested Nature of Domesticity in Colonial Zimbabwe, c.1945–1978
This article seeks to further examine existing gender and empire debates in the British Empire, by focusing on the changing nature of gender relations in colonial Zimbabwe. To establish the changing ideological framework of the ‘Federation’ era this paper first analyses contested representations of white women in the print media, demonstrating within the broader political discourses the erosion of ‘suitable’ gender norms in the post-Second World …
The White Rhodesians: Settlers, or Expatriates
Rhodesia's Unilateral Declaration of Independence: An International History
The Unbearable Whiteness of Being: Farmers' Voices From Zimbabwe
Rory Pilossof (Harare, Weaver Press and Claremont, UCT Press, 2012), vii +266 pp, £22.95, paperback, ISBN 978-1-77922-169-8 (Zimbabwe) 978-1-92409-997-9 (South Africa) The iniquitous pattern of lan
Shereen Essof. Shemurenga: The Zimbabwe Women's Movement 1995–2000
Afrikanerdom, Archives, and Change: The Archive for Contemporary Affairs at the University of the Free State, South Africa
This article examines some of the core holdings within the Archive for Contemporary Affairs at the University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa. Prominent amongst this material are the papers of the National Party (NP), the political party that formalised the structures of apartheid. Paying particular attention to the papers of what Hermann Giliomee has termed ‘The Last Afrikaner Leaders’ alongside recently acquired material concernin…
Plundering the Past: History and Nation in Mugabe's Zimbabwe
In recent years in postcolonial Zimbabwe there has been a recasting of the past. ZANU(PF), under the increasingly authoritarian leadership of Robert Mugabe, have sought to monopolise and shape domi
Cocktail hour under the tree of forgetfulness; One hundred and four horses: A memoir of farm and family, Africa and exile; Roses under the miobo trees: an English girl in Rhodesia
In recent years there has been an explosion of memoirs written by whites about colonial Zimbabwe. Spearheaded by journalists such as Peter Godwin, who to date has published three memoirs/travelogue
From Settlers to Strays: White Zimbabwean women, historical memory and belonging in the diasporac.1980-2010
Based on interviews with thirty women, this article examines white attitudes to the coming of Zimbabwe's independence in 1980. As it details, many of the interviewees construct problematic versions of the past, foregrounding what Annie E. Coombes has termed the ‘deceptively benign’ nature of settler colonialism. Through an examination of the context in which the interviews were conducted, the article comments on the mobilisation of certain post-c…
Mostly we are White and Alone: Identity, Anxiety and the Past in Some White Zimbabwean Memoirs
Using the space created by the land invasions, over the last ten years or so there has been a proliferation of exile memoirs written by white Zimbabweans living in the diaspora, which foreground colonial nostalgia and postcolonial anxiety. This article profiles elements of this latest wave of "white (female) writing", arguing that writers such as Alexandra Fuller construct their own personal narratives based on an extremely teleological and narro…
Pattern, Puzzle, and Peculiarity: Rhodesia’s UDI and Decolonisation in Southern Africa
On 18 April 1980, the Union Jack was finally lowered at Government House, Harare. Presiding over this muted piece of imperial theatre, Lord Soames, who had been appointed interim governor of Rhodes
We Wanted to be Free as a Nation, and We Wanted to be Free as Women’: Decolonisation, Nationalism and Women's Liberation in Zimbabwe, 1979–85 1
This article examines one of the most intractable problems that a newly independent nation encounters; the dissonance between the rhetoric of a revolutionary movement and its subsequent treatment of women in nationalist and supposedly decolonial projects. In drawing on interviews and archival research carried out in periodicals, newspapers and Hansard, the article examines the optimism, disillusionment and betrayal of Zimbabwe's women in the firs…
Women's Activism in the British Anti-Apartheid Movement, 1986–1994
Laying the groundwork for a new way to think through the history of British anti-apartheid activity, this article examines the liminal space between anti-racist and feminist activity through a case-study of Leeds Women Against Apartheid. Founded in 1986, LWAA were comprised of a dedicated nucleus of activists, and were concerned with imbuing international solidarity with a tangible meaning. To LWAA, solidarity had a quantifiable basis that could …
Reworlding feminism and social movements from the Global South
Based on the Womandla! Feminism and Social Movements in the Global South Online Seminar Series, this special issue originated in a conference that was to be held in South Africa but became caught up in a moment of ‘reworlding’ experienced globally. This special issue centres women’s experiences of gender in the Global South: editors and authors embrace both the feminist historical tradition and the theoretical insights of decolonial feminisms to …
Political science (15 works) · Sociology (14 works) · African studies and sociopolitical issues (13 works) · Law (12 works) · History (11 works) · African history and culture studies (10 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Colonialism (9 works) · History (9 works) · Law (9 works)