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Feminist movements had as their imperative, the redress of the political, economic and social asymmetries experienced by women. Within the literature in the West, a wave model has been popularly used to describe both the kinetic chronology as well as the gestation of the earlier movement from those of the latter.
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Naidu, M. (2016). Local Contexts, Local Theory. In: Etim, J. (eds) Introduction to Gender Studies in Eastern and Southern Africa. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-558-6_3
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