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| Title: | Patriarchy and class: African women in the home and the workforce |
| Editors: | Stichter, Sharon B. Parpart, Jane L. |
| Chapter(s): | Present |
| Year: | 1988 |
| Pages: | 233 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | African modernization and development |
| City of publisher: | Boulder |
| Publisher: | Westview Press |
| ISBN: | 0813374162 |
| Geographic term: | Subsaharan Africa |
| Subjects: | modes of production patriarchy women |
| Abstract: | In seeking to place the study of women in Africa in the mainstream of feminist writings, this volume argues for a materialist mode of production analysis. The contributors cover a wide range of areas and time periods, examining such issues as mode of production, reproduction and domestic labour, paying particular attention to both the interaction between class and gender and the notion of patriarchy, and addressing some of the fundamental problems of conceptualization relevant to marxism-feminism. Contents: 1. Introduction: towards a materialist perspective on African women, by S.B. Stichter and J.L. Parpart - 2. The material basis of sexism: a mode of production analysis, by J. Koopman Henn - 3. Patriarchal social formations in Zimbabwe, by N. Folbre - 4. Demographic theories and women's reproductive labor, by J. Vock - 5. Rural women's access to labor in West Africa, by P.A. Roberts - 6. Sexuality and power on the Zambian Copperbelt: 1926-1964, by J.L. Parpart - 7. Domestic labor in a colonial city: prostitution in Nairobi, 1900-1952, by L. White - 8. Evading male control: women in the second economy in Zaire, by J. MacGaffey - 9. The middle-class family in Kenya: changes in gender relations, by S.B. Stichter - 10. Trapped workers: the case of domestic servants in South Africa, by J. Cock. |