Running after Pills : Politics, Gender, and Contraception in Colonial Zimbabwe

Kaler examines the ways that "modern" contraceptive technologies, such as the pill and the Deop-Provera injection, became embroiled in gender and generation conflicts and in the national liberation struggle in Zimbabwe during the 1960s and 1970s.

Based on extensive oral and archival research, the book shows the ways in which fertility and control over reproduction within marriage and the family influenced the development of the "imagined community" of the nascent Zimbabwean nation.