Women wielding the hoe : lessons from rural Africa for feminist theory and development practice /: lessons from rural Africa for feminist theory and development practice. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Deborah Fahy Bryceson.
• Other Names: Bryceson, Deborah Fahy
• Contents: African women hoe cultivators: speculative origins and current enigmas / Deborah Fahy Bryceson -- Women's farming and present ethnography: perspectives on a Nigerian restudy / Jane I. Guyer -- Down to fundamentals: women-centered hearth-holds in rural West Africa / Felicia I. Ekejiuba -- Myth of the African family in the world of development / Bridget O'Laughlin -- Uses and abuses of the concept of 'female-headed households' in research on agrarian transformation and policy / Pauline E. Peters -- Women's workload and reproductive stress / Han Bantje -- 'Children are our wealth and we want them': a difficult pregnancy on Northern Mafia Island, Tanzania / Pat Caplan -- Mothers, healers and farmers in Congo / Marie-Claude Dupré -- What women can do: AIDS crisis management in Uganda / Christine Obbo -- Must women work together? Development agency assumptions versus changing relations of production in southern Malawi households / Jean Davidson -- Wishful thinking: theory and practice of western donor efforts to raise women's status in rural Africa / Deborah Fahy Bryceson -- Documenting women's views through participatory research: diaries of daily activities in rural Zambia / Else Skjønsberg -- Truth in fantasy: story-telling with and about women in Msoga Village, Tanzania / Ulla Vuorela -- Burying the hoe? / Deborah Fahy Bryceson.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (304 pages)
• Subjects: 305.42/0967; Rural women -- Africa, Sub-Saharan; Rural women -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Social conditions; Women in agriculture -- Africa, Sub-Saharan; Women in rural development -- Africa, Sub-Saharan; Femmes en milieu rural -- Afrique noire; Femmes en milieu rural -- Afrique noire -- Conditions sociales; Femmes en agriculture -- Afrique noire; Femmes dans le développement rural -- Afrique noire; Rural women; Rural women -- Social conditions; Women in agriculture; Women in rural development; Frau; Landfrau; Landwirtschaft; Ländliche Entwicklung; Soziale Situation; Crop production -- Women -- Africa; Status of women -- Africa; Social conditions -- Women -- Africa; Labor and laborers, Agricultural -- Women -- Africa; Production systems -- Africa; Femmes en milieu rural -- Afrique noire; Femmes en milieu rural -- Malawi; Femmes en milieu rural -- Nigeria; Femmes en milieu rural -- Ouganda; Femmes en milieu rural -- Tanzanie; Femmes en milieu rural -- Zambie; Femmes en milieu rural -- Afrique noire -- Conditions sociales; Femmes en agriculture -- Afrique noire; Femmes dans le développement rural -- Afrique noire; Vrouwen; Landbouw; Plattelandsontwikkeling; Frau; Sub-Saharan Africa; Subsaharisches Afrika; Afrika
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000323801; 1000323803
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