Rural Gender Relations: Issues and Case Studies

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RURAL GENDER RELATIONS: ISSUES AND CASE STUDIES Bock, B. and Shortall, S. (Eds.) (2006) Wallingford UK: CABI Publishing. ISBN 0-85199-030-4 pp. 372 RRP 55.00 paperback.

Feminist research has been part of my life since 1986 when I read Barbara Rogers' The Domestication of Women while working in an East African rural development project. Because the men were mine workers in South Africa, or part of the bandidos armados in Renamo, or solthers in the government army, women dominated the fields, the markets, the villages, providing food in a time of drought, war and famine, working endlessly. Against this background of unceasing and overwhelming societal challenge, I pondered what it …