COVID-19 and Gender-Based Violence in Zimbabwe

Isaiah Munyiswa (PhD) is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at the National University of Lesotho. He teaches courses in Political Philosophy, Critical Thinking Skills and Textual Analysis. His research interests are in the capabilities approach to human development, citizenship studies, Economic Philosophy and the Philosophy of Well-being.Pauline Mateveke (PhD) Is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and Media Studies at the University of Zimbabwe. She is an African literature and culture scholar whose research interests include, gender, sexuality, Popular Culture, political and social themes on Africa.Ezra Chitando (PhD) is a Professor of Phenomenology of Religion in the Department of Philosophy, Religion and Ethics at the University of Zimbabwe. His broad research and publication interests include method and theory in the study of religion, as well as religion, health, gender, security, politics, development, climate change, and sexuality, among others.

• INTRODUCTION: COVID-19 and Gender-Based Violence in Zimbabwe: Women's Pandemic Experiences and Lessons for the Future 1. The COVID-19 Pandemic and Gender-Based Violence in Zimbabwe 2. The Intersectionality of Culture, Religion, Gender and COVID-19: Implications for Indigenous Women’s Health and Wellbeing in Zimbabwe 3. Utilizing the African Duality Theory for Gender Equality during Pandemics 4. Philosophical reflections on intimate partner violence (IPV) during the COVID-19 pandemic in Zimbabwe 5. The feminine quadrant of girlhood, motherhood, wifehood, and widowhood in Titus 2:3-5: A hermeneutical discussion in the context of Christian women, HIV and AIDS, and COVID-19 in Zimbabwe 6. Women’s Organizations vs Organizing Women? Questioning Silences and Selective (Re)presentation of Women in a COVID-19 Context in Zimbabwe 7. Women, Religion, Socio-Cultural Beliefs and the HIV/AIDS and COVID-19 Pandemics in Zimbabwe 8. Media framing of Covid-19 gender-based violence in Zimbabwe: The case of the Herald, Daily News and NewsDay (2019 - 2022) 9. ‘Stay-at-Home’, A double Edged Consequential Policy: The Case of Zimbabwean Women During the COVID-19 Pandemic 10. Structural Violence and /as a Pandemic in Crisis Communication: Has the Media done Justice to Women’s Sexual Reproductive Rights? 11. The Media and Dynamics of COVID- 19 Vaccine Acceptance - Hesitance among Harare Central Prison Camp Prison Female Participants 12. Medical Experts on Religious Influencers’ Framing of COVID-19 Risk Communication: Implications on Women 13. Pandemics as Disability: Reflections on the Feminisation of Care During Pandemics in Zimbabwe 14. Gender-based Violence Reports in Zimbabwe During the Covid-19 Pandemic and the Danger of Advocacy Inflation CONCLUSION

"GBV, in many of its varied forms, is explored in this book, with findings and lessons that are applicable both within and beyond the Zimbabwean context. [...] COVID-19 and gender-based violence in Zimbabwe not only succeeds in its two goals—to document women’s experience and look ahead to pandemic preparedness—but also is a powerful source of lived experience. The words of women who have survived both GBV and COVID-19, in both their native languages and translated into English, provide powerful insight into the lives behind the statistics, and accountability to serve them better going forwards."Phoebe Ashley-Norman, writing in The Lancet Infectious Diseases, Volume 25, Issue 8, 845.