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The Men I've Hated

by Tinatswe Mhaka

Relationships and the search for freedom

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Relationships and the search for freedom

Set across the protagonist’s life from childhood into adulthood, the novel examines her relationships with men alongside the pressures of patriarchy in family life and love. Her experiences raise questions about freedom, identity and the burdens attached to womanhood. The Zimbabwean setting and Southern African literary classification provide context for a story concerned with how gendered expectations shape a woman’s place in the world.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in fiction centered on women’s relationships and life experience
  • Readers exploring themes of patriarchy, gender and freedom
  • Readers seeking fiction connected to Zimbabwe and Southern Africa

Themes

PatriarchyFreedom and identityWomen’s relationshipsGendered expectationsWomanhood

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Book overview

A Zimbabwean woman takes readers on a journey through relationships with men from childhood to her adulthood. She interrogates the meaning of freedom and her place in the world through her experience of patriarchy in family, love and inescapable burdens of womanhood.

 

​Tinatswe Mhaka (BA) (LLB) is an author, lawyer, feminist digital storyteller and activist from Harare, Zimbabwe. Tinatswe is the founder of Feminist Voices Zimbabwe, an organisation strengthening gender advocacy and access to justice through documentation and dissemination of information. Tinatswe is passionate about digital media and the mainstreaming of injustices prevalent against women in the global south. She has numerous publications related to the emancipation of women through law and policy. Tinatswe has previously had stories published in Turquoise Dreams, a short anthology by Zimbabwean women. She is an Atlas Corps Editorial Fellow at the Leonardo International Society of Arts, Science and Technology.

 

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