Description |
xi, 282 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
Series |
Cross-cultural perspectives on women, 1068-8536 ; vol. 16 |
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Cross-cultural perspectives on women ; v. 16
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Contents |
1. African Women Hoe Cultivators: Speculative Origins and Current Enigmas / Deborah Fahy Bryceson -- 2. Women's Farming and Present Ethnography: Perspectives on a Nigerian Restudy / Jane I. Guyer -- 3. Down to Fundamentals: Women-centered Hearth-holds in Rural West Africa / Felicia I. Ekejiuba -- 4. Myth of the African Family in the World of Development / Bridget O'Laughlin -- 5. Uses and Abuses of the Concept of 'Female-headed Households' in Research on Agrarian Transformation and Policy / Pauline E. Peters -- 6. Women's Workload and Reproductive Stress / Han Bantje -- 7. 'Children are Our Wealth and We Want Them': A Difficult Pregnancy on Northern Mafia Island, Tanzania / Pat Caplan -- 8. Mothers, Healers and Farmers in Congo / Marie-Claude Dupre -- 9. What Women Can Do: AIDS Crisis Management in Uganda / Christine Obbo -- 10. Must Women Work Together? Development Agency Assumptions versus Changing Relations of Production in Southern Malawi Households / Jean Davison |
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11. Wishful Thinking: Theory and Practice of Western Donor Efforts to Raise Women's Status in Rural Africa / Deborah Fahy Bryceson -- 12. Documenting Women's Views through Participatory Research: Diaries of Daily Activities in Rural Zambia / Else Skjonsberg -- 13. Truth in Fantasy: Story-telling with and about Women in Msoga Village, Tanzania / Ulla Vuorela -- 14. Burying the Hoe? / Deborah Fahy Bryceson |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Subject |
Rural women -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.
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Rural women -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Social conditions.
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Women in agriculture -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.
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Women in rural development -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.
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Author |
Bryceson, Deborah Fahy.
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LC no. |
96115841 |
ISBN |
185973068X |
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1859730736 paperback |
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