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Title: | Class, Gender and the Household: The Developmental Cycle in Southern Africa |
Author: | Murray, Colin |
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. |