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 Health and Rights (SRHR).- Section D: The Impact of Social Media, Literary Texts and Initiation on Women’s SRHR Needs.- Chapter Fifteen: Revamping of a “sanctuary without honour”: VaRemba women’s sexual reproductive health and rights (SRHR) in the enclaves of religion and marriage.- Chapter Sixteen: The Personification of Nature as Mother: Motherhood in Islam with Specific Reference to Varemba Women in Mberengwa, Zimbabwe.- Chapter Seventeen:  “Saving Fish from Drowning?”: An Africana Womanist Conceptualization of Wo/Manhood and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) Through Analyzing Selected ChiShona Literature Texts.- Chapter Eighteen: Media Rhetoric, Women, Silences and Sexual Abuses in the Church.