Year: 2014, 2014
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Abstract: <p>This thesis presents an assessment of the role of culture in the political marginalization and the socio-economic violence and abuse against women in Zambia. It also explores other contributing factors such as the country's economic crisis of the 1970s, and its colonial legacy, especially in as far as these factors related to the status of women and contributed to the issue of… more Full Text: THE QUESTION OF CULTURE IN THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC VIOLENCE & ABUSE AGAINST WOMEN IN ZAMBIA: 1980S-1990S. A thesis submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in the Faculty of Arts …