The Challenge Road: Women and the Eritrean Revolution [Paperback]

This book, first published in 1991, analyses the role of women in the Eritrean struggle for independence. Emerging from a semi-feudal world, these women  peasants and pastoralists, student activists and workers from the cities  participated fully in the Eritrean revolution. They have organized cells, gathered intelligence, carried out clandestine missions, set up and ran health and education systems and fought on the front line, and in transforming themselves they have transformed Eritrea.

1. Introduction  2. Mabrats Story  3. Laying the Foundations  4. Behind the Enemy Lines  5. Fighters  6. Land Reform  7. Marriage  8. Health  9. The Future

This book, first published in 1991, analyses the role of women in the Eritrean struggle for independence. Emerging from a semi-feudal world, these women  peasants and pastoralists, student activists and workers from the cities  participated fully in the Eritrean revolution.