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Title: | The subjugation of pre-capitalist relations to capital and the oppression of women |
Author: | Mbilinyi, Marjorie |
Year: | 1982 |
Periodical: | Taamuli: a Political Science Forum |
Volume: | 11 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 15-39 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Tanzania |
Subjects: | women's employment women's work |
Abstract: | On the basis of 1980 field research in the village of Diozile I. Tanzania. the author examines the level of consumption/reproduction at village and household levels. the average minimum household budget, and patriarchal relations in household production in order to show the contradictory relations in which women are situated, as well as the deterioration of peasant agriculture. She investigates the specific ways in which capitalist and patriarchal relations combine in the reproduction of peasants, and argues that the patriarchal exploitation of female labour in the households of both peasants and workers ultimately contributes to higher rates of capitalist exploitation. Women enter into wage labour and commodity crop production differently from men, partly because of patriarchal relations, and thus represent a more vulnerable and less organized segment of the proletariat. Bibliogr., notes. |