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Title:Class, Gender and the Household: The Developmental Cycle in Southern Africa
Author:Murray, ColinISNI
Year:1987
Periodical:Development and Change
Volume:18
Issue:2
Period:April
Pages:235-249
Language:English
Geographic terms:Southern Africa
South Africa
Botswana
Lesotho
Subjects:gender relations
labour migration
family
Economics and Trade
Labor and Employment
Women's Issues
Urbanization and Migration
Cultural Roles
Family Life
migration
economics
Sex Roles
External link:https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7660.1987.tb00271.x
Abstract:Review of the relevance of the concept of the developmental cycle of domestic groups to understanding processes of household formation and dissolution in the rural periphery of southern Africa, specifically Lesotho, Botswana, and the bantustans. The author is concerned with three key issues: the structural relationships between rural communities and urban workplaces in 'white' South Africa, as these have developed historically; structures of inequality within rural communities themselves; and the implications of the gender division of labour for understanding household formation and dissolution through time. The primary test of the continuing analytical relevance of the concept of the developmental cycle of domestic groups must be its capacity to situate cyclical changes within a theoretical framework loosely represented as the political economy of migrant labour, sensitive to the changing structural determinants of the 'total situation' of rural households in southern Africa. Bibliogr.
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