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Title: | Marriage and Medicine: Women's Search for Love and Luck |
Author: | Keller, Bonnie B. |
Year: | 1978 |
Periodical: | African Social Research |
Issue: | 26 |
Period: | December |
Pages: | 489-505 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Zambia |
Subjects: | women witchcraft Women's Issues Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) |
Abstract: | The economic dependency of Zambian townswomen influences the way in which they perceive their relationships with men. Women feel that they are often unable to control or influence the course that their relationship with a man takes. They see men as primary actors and themselves as reactors. The present paper details the kinds of experiences which townswomen have in their relationships with men and their strategies for coping with vulnerability and economic dependency, particularly the strategy of indigenous medicine usage. Information is based on the author's observation of forty-eight women, predominantly Tonga in ethnic origin, who lived in Mazabuka, a small urban enclave in a largely rural, agricultural district in the Southern Province, during the period 1975-76. Notes, ref. |