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
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
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