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Title: | The Complexities of Female Household Headship in Botswana |
Author: | Mookodi, Godisang |
Year: | 2000 |
Periodical: | Pula: Botswana Journal of African Studies (ISSN 0256-2316) |
Volume: | 14 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 148-164 |
Language: | English |
Notes: | biblio. refs. |
Geographic terms: | Botswana Southern Africa |
Subjects: | gender relations female-headed households households Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Women's Issues Cultural Roles Family Life Sex Roles gender Women heads of households income Resource allocation |
External link: | https://d.lib.msu.edu/pula/306/OBJ/download |
Abstract: | This paper discusses the complexities that arise when using the concept of female-headed household in the context of Botswana. It considers some of the criticisms of the concept of headship, notably that it presents a monolithic and often limited notion of social organization that fails to take into account complex gendered social interactions that occur within and outside the confines of domestic units. The results of a study conducted among low-income female and male-headed/supported households in Manyana, a rural village, and Gaborone, the Botswanan capital, reveal the complex interplay of culture-structure and individual agency that is obscured by discrete notions of 'headship'. Bibliogr., notes. [Journal abstract] |