Women and Development in North Western Zambia: From Producer to Housewife

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Title:	Women and Development in North Western Zambia: From Producer to Housewife
Author:	Crehan, Kate
Year:	1983
Periodical:	Review of African Political Economy
Volume:	10
Issue:	27-28
Pages:	51-66
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Zambia
Subjects:	dual economy women subsistence farming Women's Issues Development and Technology Labor and Employment Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Economics and Trade Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment
External link:	https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03056248308703546
Abstract:	Colonialism intensified the sexual divisions and gender subordination of pre-capitalist modes of production. In addition to their burden of domestic labour, women have been increasingly drawn into capitalist production as workers. The author tries to draw out some of the implications for a group of Zambian hoe cultivators of being locked into an agricultural system not geared to production for the market and at the same time having a growing dependence on a range of industrially produced goods obtained only through some form of economic exchange with the wider Zambian economy. The paper focuses particularly on the women concerned. The research was carried out between 1979 and 1981 in Mukunashi, a Kaonde community in North Western Zambia. Fig.