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Title: | Household Strategies for Adaptation and Change: Participation in Kenyan Rural Women's Associations |
Author: | Thomas, Barbara P. |
Year: | 1988 |
Periodical: | Africa: Journal of the International African Institute |
Volume: | 58 |
Issue: | 4 |
Pages: | 401-422 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Kenya |
Subjects: | women's organizations rural households Women's Issues Development and Technology Economics and Trade Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Family Life Cultural Roles organizations Sex Roles |
External links: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/1160349 https://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pao:&rft_dat=xri:pao:article:4011-1988-058-00-000021 |
Abstract: | This study uses case material to examine ways in which rural African households participate in local associations to advance interests in maintenance, accumulation or mobility. It draws on data concerning household involvement in rural women's voluntary associations in two communities - Mbiri and Weithaga - in Murang'a District, Central Province, Kenya. It examines households and women's associations for a) patterns of cooperation, reciprocity and exchange which these associations facilitate; b) the impact of this strategy on the access of both women and the household to productive resources; and c) the effect of this strategy on intrahousehold decisionmaking and resource use. The specific argument presented is that: women's associations assist women and their households with two constraints, shortage of cash and shortage of labour; the impact of these associations varies according to the resource base of the community and socioeconomic attributes of the household; the associations serve the immediate concerns of every member to meet basic needs. App., bibliogr., sum. in French. |