Women Wielding the Hoe: Lessons from Rural Africa for Feminist Theory and Development Practice

Bryceson, Deborah F.; Akram-Lodhi, A. Haroon

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Title:	Women Wielding the Hoe: Lessons from Rural Africa for Feminist Theory and Development Practice
Editors:	Bryceson, Deborah F. Akram-Lodhi, A. Haroon
Chapter(s):	Present
Year:	1995
Volume:	16
Pages:	282
Language:	English
Series:	Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Women (ISSN 1068-8536)
City of publisher:	Oxford
Publisher:	Berg
ISBN:	185973068X; 1859730736
Geographic terms:	Africa Subsaharan Africa
Subjects:	women farmers women Cultural Roles agriculture Development and Technology Labor and Employment Sex Roles Status of Women
Abstract:	The papers in this collection explore former and prevailing Western theories about African women hoe cultivators. The introduction, by Deborah Fahy Bryceson, is followd by four main sections which deal with African women hoe agriculturalists' productive role (Jane I. Guyer on Yoruba women's farming, Felicia I. Ekejiuba on women-centred hearth-holds in rural West Africa, Bridget O'Laughlin on the myth of the African family in the world of development, and Pauline E. Peters on the concept of 'female-headed households'); their reproductive role (Han Bantje on women's workload and reproductive stress, Pat Caplan on a pregnancy and its effects in a village in Tanzania, Marie-Claude Dupré on mothers, healers and farmers in Congo, and Christine Obbo on women and AIDS crisis management in Uganda); the way they have been approached and portrayed by Western development agencies (Jean Davison on cooperative labour in Banja households in southern Malawi, and Deborah Fahy Bryceson on Western donor efforts to raise women's status in rural Africa); and efforts to record African women's own views (Else Skjønsberg on diaries of daily activities in rural Zambia, and Ulla Vuorela on storytelling in Msoga village, Tanzania). The conclusion, by Deborah Fahy Bryceson, emphasizes the lessons that can be drawn from the sustained fieldwork of the contributors for Western feminist theory and development practice.

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