Abstract
Ushehwedu Kufakurinani looks at the influence of Victorian domesticity and explores continuity versus change in the adoption of this ideology by settler community in Rhodesia. In contrast with current analysis, which emphasise the axis of racial constructions of settler societies, the author argues that gender was just as equally a factor as race and class in shaping colonial society in Rhodesia hence the need to investigate gender dynamics within settler regimes.

Bio
His research interests are centred on issues that relate Gender and Empire, and Gender and Migration. He's working in his PhD thesis on: "White women and Domesticity in Colonial Zimbabwe (1890 to 1980)", attempting to analyse the nature of settler women's experiences using the domestic ideology as a theoretical frame. In his previous research, he looked at white women in the Public service of Southern Rhodesia. His main objective is to understand how gender constructions shaped settler societies.
Teaching Areas: Social and economic History of women in Africa, Economic History of North Africa, Economic History of Zimbabwe, Research Methods in Economic History