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Women’s Activism in the British Anti-Apartheid Movement, 1986-1994 (2022)
Journal Article
Law, K. (2023). Women’s Activism in the British Anti-Apartheid Movement, 1986-1994. Historical Journal, 66(1), 258-279. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X22000310

Laying the groundwork for a new way to think through the history of British anti-apartheid activity, this article examines the liminal space between anti-racist and feminist activity through a case study of Leeds Women Against Apartheid. Founded in 1... Read More about Women’s Activism in the British Anti-Apartheid Movement, 1986-1994.

‘We wanted to be free as a nation, and we wanted to be free as women’: Decolonisation, Nationalism and Women's Liberation in Zimbabwe, 1979–85 1 (2020)
Journal Article
Law, K. (2021). ‘We wanted to be free as a nation, and we wanted to be free as women’: Decolonisation, Nationalism and Women's Liberation in Zimbabwe, 1979–85 1. Gender and History, 33(1), 249-268. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12491

This article examines one of the most intractable problems that a newly independent nation encounters; the dissonance between the rhetoric of a revolutionary movement and its subsequent treatment of women in nationalist and supposedly decolonial proj... Read More about ‘We wanted to be free as a nation, and we wanted to be free as women’: Decolonisation, Nationalism and Women's Liberation in Zimbabwe, 1979–85 1.

“Mostly we are white and alone”: identity, anxiety and the past in some white Zimbabwean memoirs (2014)
Journal Article
Law, K. (2016). “Mostly we are white and alone”: identity, anxiety and the past in some white Zimbabwean memoirs. Journal of Historical Sociology, 29(3), 297-318. https://doi.org/10.1111/johs.12090

Using the space created by the land invasions, over the last ten years or so there has been a proliferation of exile memoirs written by white Zimbabweans living in the diaspora, which foreground colonial nostalgia and postcolonial anxiety. This artic... Read More about “Mostly we are white and alone”: identity, anxiety and the past in some white Zimbabwean memoirs.