ISBN:
9781000323801
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (295 pages)
Parallel Title:
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DDC:
305.42/0967
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- I INTRODUCTION -- 1 African Women Hoe Cultivators: Speculative Origins and Current Enigmas -- The Mystique Surrounding African Women Hoe Cultivators -- Adoption and Adaptation: Malleability of the Division of Labour under Hoe Agriculture -- Notes -- References -- II 'SISTERS OF THE SOIL': AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION AND SOCIAL ORGANIZATION IN AFRICAN HOE-BASED SOCIETIES -- 2 Women's Farming and Present Ethnography: Perspectives on a Nigerian Restudy -- Introduction -- Encounters with Evolutionism -- A Present Ethnography of Yoruba Women's Farming -- Conclusion: Present Ethnography with Multiple Temporal Frames -- Notes -- References -- 3 Down to Fundamentals: Women-centred Hearth-holds in Rural West Africa -- Introduction -- Poor-fit Category -- 'Households' in Rural West Africa -- Hearth-hold Defined -- Nested Hearth- holds in Household and Lineage Matrices -- Predicament of Virilocal Hearth-holds -- Hearth-hold Concept's Utility to Development Work -- Conclusion -- References -- 4 Myth of the African Family in the World of Development -- Introduction: From Modernization to African Modes of Production -- Myth-making: The Demographic Specificity of Africa -- Theoretical Basis of 'The African Family System' -- Conjugal Terms in Women's Farming -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 5 Uses and Abuses of the Concept of 'Female-headed Households' in Research on Agrarian Transformation and Policy -- Emergence of the Concept -- Uses of the Concept -- Abuses of the Concept -- Challenges and New Directions -- References -- III MIXED BLESSINGS OF MOTHERHOOD: FERTILITY, SEXUALITY AND AGRARIAN LIVELIHOOD -- 6 Women's Workload and Reproductive Stress -- Introduction -- Women's Role in Agriculture -- Women's Reproductive Role.
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