Women Wielding the Hoe (eBook, PDF)

Lessons from Rural Africa for Feminist Theory and Development Practice
Redaktion: Bryceson, Deborah

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

How effective is western aid-agency intervention in Africa? What can African women do to manage the AIDS crisis? Can western feminist theory be applied to the rural African context?These vital issues, and many others, are considered in this topical book by eminent scholars and development consultants.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000325591
• Artikelnr.: 60067497

Autorenporträt

Deborah Bryceson Senior Research Fellow,African Studies Centre, Leiden

Inhaltsangabe

African Women Hoe Cultivators: Speculative Origins and Current Enigmas
D. F. Bryceson; Women's Farming and Present Ethnography: Perspectives on a Nigerian Restudy
J. Guyer; Down to Fundamentals: Women-Centred Hearth-holds in Rural West Africa
F. Ekejiuba; The Myth of the African Family in the World of Development
B. O'Laughlin; Uses and Abuses of the Concept of 'Female-Headed Households' in Research on Agrarian Transformation and Policy
P. Peters; Women's Workload and Reproductive Stress
H. Bantje; 'Children are Our Wealth': A Difficult Pregnancy on Mafia Island
Tanzania
P. Caplan; Mothers
Healers and Farmers in Congo
M. C. Dupre; What Women Can Do: AIDS Crisis Management in Uganda
C. Obbo; Must Women Work Together? Development Agency Assumptions v. Changing Relations of Production in Southern Malawi Households
J. Davison; Wishful Thinking: Theory and Practice of Western Donor Efforts to Raise Women's Status in Rural Africa
D. Bryceson; Documenting Women's Views through Participatory Research: Diaries of Daily Activities in Rural Zambia
E. Skjonsberg; Truth in Fantasy: Storytelling with and about Women in Msoga Village
Tanzania
U. Vuorela; Burying the Hoe?
D. Bryceson.