Ushehwedu Kufakurinani, PhD. (2015), University of Zimbabwe, is a senior lecturer and chairperson of the Department of Economic History at the University of Zimbabwe. He has published various articles on Zimbabwe.

• PrefaceAcknowledgments List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Map of RhodesiaIntroduction: White Women and the Unfolding Rhodesian Society 1 Domesticity, Constructions of Whiteness, and White Femininity in Southern Rhodesia 2 White Women and the Domestic Space: Housewifery in the Rhodesian Context 3 Emerging Out of the Sheaths of Domesticity? White Women in Formal Wage Employment, c. 1914–1980 4 White Women and Wage Employment 5 Mothering the Empire: Overview of White Women’s Organisations 6 White Women’s Organisations and Settler Society, 1920s–1970s 7 Encounter with Africans, 1920s–1980 8 White Women and the Homecraft Movement Conclusion Appendix AAppendix B Bibliography Index

Ushehwedu Kufakurinani, PhD. (2015), University of Zimbabwe, is a senior lecturer and chairperson of the Department of Economic History at the University of Zimbabwe. He has published various articles on Zimbabwe.

• PrefaceAcknowledgments List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Map of RhodesiaIntroduction: White Women and the Unfolding Rhodesian Society 1 Domesticity, Constructions of Whiteness, and White Femininity in Southern Rhodesia 2 White Women and the Domestic Space: Housewifery in the Rhodesian Context 3 Emerging Out of the Sheaths of Domesticity? White Women in Formal Wage Employment, c. 1914–1980 4 White Women and Wage Employment 5 Mothering the Empire: Overview of White Women’s Organisations 6 White Women’s Organisations and Settler Society, 1920s–1970s 7 Encounter with Africans, 1920s–1980 8 White Women and the Homecraft Movement Conclusion Appendix AAppendix B Bibliography Index

Ushehwedu Kufakurinani, PhD. (2015), University of Zimbabwe, is a senior lecturer and chairperson of the Department of Economic History at the University of Zimbabwe. He has published various articles on Zimbabwe.

• PrefaceAcknowledgments List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Map of RhodesiaIntroduction: White Women and the Unfolding Rhodesian Society 1 Domesticity, Constructions of Whiteness, and White Femininity in Southern Rhodesia 2 White Women and the Domestic Space: Housewifery in the Rhodesian Context 3 Emerging Out of the Sheaths of Domesticity? White Women in Formal Wage Employment, c. 1914–1980 4 White Women and Wage Employment 5 Mothering the Empire: Overview of White Women’s Organisations 6 White Women’s Organisations and Settler Society, 1920s–1970s 7 Encounter with Africans, 1920s–1980 8 White Women and the Homecraft Movement Conclusion Appendix AAppendix B Bibliography Index