Research Catalog

Title

Gender, development, and identity : an Ethiopian study / Helen Pankhurst.

Author

Pankhurst, Helen.

Publication

London ; Atlantic Highlands, N.J. : Zed Books, 1992.

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Details

Description

216 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm

Subject

• Women in rural development > Ethiopia > Case studies
• Rural development > Ethiopia > Case studies
• Women peasants > Ethiopia > Case studies
• Rural development
• Women in rural development
• Women peasants
• Frau
• Landwirtschaft
• Ländliche Entwicklung
• Vrouwen
• Status of women > Ethiopia
• Labor and laborers > Women > Ethiopia
• Household production > Ethiopia
• Social organization > Ethiopia
• Women > Ethiopia
• Femmes dans le développement rural > Éthiopie > Cas, Études de
• Femmes en milieu rural > Éthiopie > Cas, Études de
• Développement rural > Éthiopie > Cas, Études de
• Ethiopia
• Äthiopien
• Burkina Faso > Conditions rurales

Genre/Form

• Case studies.
• Études de cas.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [200]-212) and index.

Contents

Acknowledgements -- Notes on Language -- 1 Introduction: Stating the Issues (starting p. 1) -- Pt. 1 The Country and State Policies (starting p. 9) -- 2 Ethiopia, Menz and Gragn (starting p. 11) -- 3 State Structures and the Peasantry (starting p. 23) -- Local structures (starting p. 23) -- Extension and extraction (starting p. 38) -- 4 Villagization: To Move or Not to Move? (starting p. 50) -- Overview of villagization (starting p. 50) -- The village in Gragn (starting p. 54) -- Composition of the village (starting p. 57) -- Evaluation (starting p. 59) -- Pt. 2 Women's Work and Women's Lives (starting p. 73) -- 5 Household Economy: Beyond the Plough and Ox (starting p. 75) -- Arable land: cultivation and processing (starting p. 75) -- Livestock and grazing land (starting p. 82) -- The wool economy (starting p. 86) -- The dung economy (starting p. 90) -- Uses of dung (starting p. 92) -- Trade (starting p. 96) -- 6 Careering Through Marriage (starting p. 102) -- Types of marriage (starting p. 102) -- Polygyny and extra-marital affairs (starting p. 107) -- Endowments and transactions (starting p. 109) -- Divorce and remarriage (starting p. 114) -- Church and state (starting p. 119) -- Single women and female-headed households (starting p. 120) -- Explanations and trends (starting p. 122) -- 7 Blood and Tears: Matters of Life and Death (starting p. 127) -- The life-cycle: biology and culture (starting p. 127) -- Death (starting p. 141) -- 8 Other Worlds in Other Words: Juggling with Gender (starting p. 148) -- Religion (starting p. 149) -- Spirit belief (starting p. 156) -- Language (starting p. 167) -- 9 Gender, Rural Poverty and the State: Towards a Synthesis (starting p. 174) -- 10 Epilogue: A Glimpse of Menz After Mengistu (starting p. 182) -- Appendices (starting p. 184) -- Bibliography (starting p. 200) -- Index (starting p. 213)

ISBN

• 1856491579
• 9781856491570
• 1856491587
• 9781856491587

LCCN

92035076

OCLC

• ocm26852112
• 26852112
• SCSB-2010107

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library