Have Men Become the Weaker Sex? Changing Life Situations in Kisii District, Kenya
Silberschmidt, M.
The Journal of Modern African Studies 30(2): 237-253
1992
ISSN/ISBN: 0022-278X Document Number: 338121
The 'discovery' of third-world women and their situation followed in the wake of research by feminists in western societies. In the late 1960s, Ester Boserup documented that especially African rural women had experienced a major increase in their workload during this century; they had become the main producers not only of subsistence food but also of cash crops.
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