Covid -19, gender and health: Recentring women in African indigenous health discourses in Zimbabwe for environmental conservation

In precolonial Africa, women were the major authorities in herbal remedies within their own homes and at the community level, where they focused on disease prevention and cure. Such roles were pushed to the periphery of Africa’s health discourse by the introduction of Western modes of healing. Furth...

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Auteur principal: Manyonganise, Molly (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Publié: 2023
Dans: HTS teologiese studies
Année: 2023, Volume: 79, Numéro: 3
Sujets non-standardisés:B Women
B Herbs
B Covid-19
B Health
B Environnement (art)
B Zimbabwe
B Pandemic
B Healing
B Plants
B Gender
B African Indigenous Medicine
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