Not enough wood for the women: how modernization limits access to resources in the domestic economy of rural Kenya

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Title:	Not enough wood for the women: how modernization limits access to resources in the domestic economy of rural Kenya
Author:	Hayes, Jane Jedd
Year:	1988
Pages:	369
Language:	English
City of publisher:	Ann Arbor, MI
Publisher:	University Microfilms International
Geographic term:	Kenya
Subjects:	gender relations Kamba women fuelwood dissertations (form)
Abstract:	An examination of women's access to fuelwood in the 1980s as an example of the adoption of a more 'developed' or 'modern' division of labour by the Kamba of Kenya. It is argued that as a result of that process, women's traditional responsibility for supplying fuelwood has become more and more at odds with men's dominance in the ownership of land, the cash crop economy, and entrance into the wage labour force. At the same time, children's increasing school attendance has deprived women of an important supplementary labour force, for at least some part of the day. With men working away from home for wages, this means that Kamba women alone must carry on the largely 'traditional' and socially undervalued work of daily household maintenance.