Re-framing the prostitute identity in Zimbabwe: An approach to Virginia Phiri’s novel <i>Highway queen</i> (2010)
In Zimbabwe, as in most traditionally conservative, patriarchal and Christian dominated countries, female sex work is abhorred on moral grounds as an unbecoming means of livelihood which takes away the practising woman’s social respectability. In such societies, then, the moral threat and stigma ass...
Main Author: | Oliver Nyambi |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | Afrikaans |
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AOSIS
2015-06-01
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Series: | Literator |
Online Access: | https://literator.org.za/index.php/literator/article/view/1105 |
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