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Title: | 'We Help Our Husbands!': Negotiating the Household Budget in Rural Burkina Faso |
Author: | Thorsen, Dorte |
Year: | 2002 |
Periodical: | Development and Change |
Volume: | 33 |
Issue: | 1 |
Period: | January |
Pages: | 129-146 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Burkina Faso |
Subjects: | Bisa (Burkina Faso, Ghana) Mossi household budget Women's Issues Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Cultural Roles Family Life agriculture Sex Roles |
External link: | https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-7660.00243 |
Abstract: | This article explores the intrahousehold division of responsibilities among the Bisa and Mossi in southeastern Burkina Faso. Based on fieldwork carried out in the dry season of 1996/97 in two villages near Tenkodogo, in Boulgou Province, gendered practices in household budgeting are investigated. The study showed that in 1997, women cultivated 31 percent of all the land. Although the proportion of women's own-account agriculture suggests that they contribute substantially to household consumption, the majority of women maintain that they only help their husbands when contributing in areas that, ideologically, are his responsibility, for example by providing food and paying school fees and materials. In this way, women keep within their norms of showing respect for their husband but, at the same time, they may press him to fulfill his obligations. Bibliogr., notes, sum. |