Pawns, porters, and petty traders: Women in the transition to cash crop agriculture in colonial...

Autor: Grier, B.
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Zdroj: Signs: Journal of Women in Culture & Society; Winter92, Vol. 17 Issue 2, p304, 25p
Abstrakt: Presents a reconstruction of gender and class relations in precolonial southern Ghana among the matrilineal Akan, the predominant ethnic group in cocoa production. Some of the changes generated by the rapid expansion of cocoa production; The ways in which the continued subordination of women and the intensified exploitation of their labor were central to that expansion; The colonial state as an important factor in helping to guarantee an agricultural labor force.
Databáze: Complementary Index