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GENDERED DISORDER IN COLONIAL ZIMBABWE : CASE ANALYSES OF AFRICAN FEMALE INMATES AT THE INGUTSHENI MENTAL HOSPITAL , 1932 to 1957

This paper is a portion of the fourth chapter of my dissertation on gender and the disorder of madness. I have chosen, in this instance, to focus on the particular experience of African women, most if not all of whom were poor and rural. Their experiences were both different and the same as those of white women, black men and white men. This paper is primarily about differences. However, its goal is to contribute towards the identification of the boundaries, and boundaries within boundaries, of a colonial society as experienced by various social groups within that society. The goal of this exercise is to discern patterns in the incarceration of African women in the Ingutsheni Mental Hospital of colonial Zimbabwe (Southern Rhodesia). By identifying patterns and critiquing discussions within colonial psychiatry and the various administrative branches, I seek to explore the gendered aspects of madness as seen by the colonial psychiatrist, Native Commissioner, constable, as well as the indigenous brother, mother, husband or wife.