Kikuyu women's self-help groups: toward an understanding of the relation between sex-gender system and mode of production in Africa

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Title:	Kikuyu women's self-help groups: toward an understanding of the relation between sex-gender system and mode of production in Africa
Author:	Stamp, Patricia
Book title:	Women and class in Africa
Year:	1986
Pages:	27-46
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Kenya
Subjects:	Kikuyu women's organizations
Abstract:	This paper attempts to provide some theoretical guidelines for understanding African peasant women and their organizations. In the first part relevant concepts are explored. They are then applied to pre and postcolonial Kikuyu society. Finally contemporary women's self-help groups in Mitero, a Kikuyu village, are considered as an example of women's resistance to their dual exploitation based on gender and class. Notes, ref.