BOOK REVIEWS 109class and gender lines are well articulated in the testimonies and thevulnerability of women and children in situations of conflict emerges veryclearly.The only jarring note is the title, which is misleading to some extent.The narrow interpretation of amai/madzimai as 'mothers' does not reflectthe different roles women played during the liberation war, that is, aswives, sisters, daughters, chimbwidos (errand girls), party activists andorganizers, teachers, family and religious elders, farmers and so on. Thewomen's testimonies definitely do not describe their participation in andexperience of the war from the perspectives of mothers only.In spite of this flaw, the book is a valuable addition to resources onissues relating to women and their struggles during Zimbabwe's liber-ation war.University of Zimbabwe RUDO GAIDZANWAThird World Seminar Series. Oslo, Univ. of Oslo, Division for North/SouthCo-operation, Centre for Development and the Environment. Various prices.The series began in 1977 and now has over 50 publications to its credit;most of the earlier ones were in Norwegian but from 1983 they are mostlyin English. Three recent papers are directly relevant to Zimbabwe: H.Ronning, The Structure of the Media in Zimbabwe (No. 47, 1989, Kr. 40,00);J. T. Chipika, Race against Hunger or What?: A Pause for Thought onAgriculture and Rural Development in Zimbabwe since 1980 (No. 50. 1990,Kr. 20,00); and W. Ncube, State Security, The Rule of Law and Politics ofRepression in Zimbabwe (No. 15, 1990, Kr. 20,00). As seminar papers theyshould not be taken as the authors' final words on their subjects and thefirst mentioned Š by a Norwegian author Š is clearly directed more to aNorwegian than a specialist audience.R. S. R.