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Title: | Slipping through Their Fingers: Women's Migration and Tswana Patriarchy |
Author: | Cockerton, Camilla |
Year: | 2002 |
Periodical: | Botswana Notes and Records (ISSN 0525-5090) |
Volume: | 34 |
Pages: | 37-53 |
Language: | English |
Notes: | biblio. refs. |
Geographic terms: | Botswana Southern Africa |
Subjects: | gender relations Tswana women migrants labour migration Women's Issues Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Urbanization and Migration History and Exploration colonialism Cultural Roles urbanization Sex Roles Historical/Biographical History, Archaeology history women migration patriarchy Tswana (African people) |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/40980321 |
Abstract: | This article explores the nature of the patriarchal response within Tswana society (Bechuanaland, present-day Botswana) to the growing emigration of Tswana women, from the late 19th century to the 1920s. While female migrants exercised some choice over whether they would fall into the traditional role of women, or evade male mechanisms of control through migration, their autonomy was strictly circumscribed. Thus migration posed a significant threat to those who exercised those controls. Various groups of indigenous men, including royal leaders, elders, headmen, husbands, and fathers, as well as colonial officials and even missionaries, opposed women's migration. But individual responses did vary. Local patriarchs became concerned about the issue of women's migration much earlier than their colonial counterparts, but did not turn to the colonial government for help until the 1920s. Notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract] |