Religion, Women's Health Rights, and Sustainable Development in Zimbabwe: Volume 1

Chapter One: Religion, Women's Health Rights and Sustainable Development in Zimbabwe.- Section A: Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Women's Maternal Health.- Chapter Two: A Postcolonial Reflection on Indigenous Knowledge Systems-based Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare: A Case of the Ndau Women in Zimbabwe.- Chapter Three: Exploring Ndau women's ecological wisdom on managing pregnancy and childbirth.- Chapter Four: The interface of human rights and Ndau women's maternal health care rites.- Chapter Five: Mhani Vekusveka: Foregrounding Shangaan Women's role in Nurturing life with a Special Focus on Traditional Maternal Health Practices in Zaka District, Zimbabwe.- Section B: Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV) and other barriers to women's SRHR.- Chapter Six: Pouring ashes on our faces?: An African Womanist perspective on sexual and gender-based violence in Zimbabwe.- Chapter Seven: Sexual and Reproductive Health Challenges Encountered by Female Learners and Female Staff at anInstitution of Higher Learning in Zimbabwe.- Chapter Eight: Religio-Cultural Standpoints hindering adolescent and young women's access to Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) in Zimbabwe.- Chapter Nine: Omasihlalisane: A feminist pastoral response to the plight of young Zimbabwean women migrants entrapped in survivalist marriages in South Africa.- Chapter Ten: Religio-Cultural Norms Constraining Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights for Widows in Zimbabwe.- Section C: Moral and Ethical Dilemmas Inherent Women's SRHR Needs.- Chapter Eleven: Ethical reflections on the effects of Zimbabwe's abortion policy on young women's reproductive health and dignity.- Chapter Twelve: Assisted Reproductive Technologies, Infertility and Women in Zimbabwe.- Chapter Thirteen: Zimbabwean Women's Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights: Ethical and Moral Implications of the Proposed New Marriage Bill.- Chapter Fourteen: The "Small House" Phenomenon and Its Impact on Zimbabwean Women's Sexual Reproductive

Sophia Chirongoma is a senior lecturer in the Religious Studies Department at Midlands State University, Zimbabwe.




Molly Manyonganise is a senior lecturer in the Department of Religious Studies and Philosophy at the Zimbabwe Open University.



Ezra Chitando serves as Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Zimbabwe and Theology Consultant on HIV for the World Council of Churches. He is also extraordinary professor at the University of the Western Cape.