Beyond gender roles? Conceptualizing the social and economic lives of rural peoples in sub-Saharan Africa

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dc.contributor.authorWarner, M. W.en
dc.contributor.authorAl-Hassan, R. M.en
dc.contributor.authorKydd, J. G.en
dc.contributor.departmentSustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (SANREM) Knowledgebaseen
dc.coverage.spatialGhanaen
dc.coverage.temporal1993 - 1995en
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-19T18:55:33Zen
dc.date.available2016-04-19T18:55:33Zen
dc.date.issued1997en
dc.descriptionMetadata only recorden
dc.description.abstractThe repeated failure to design and appropriately target policies and interventions which address the needs of rural peoples in Africa suggests that something may be wrong with our understanding of the way that these peoples live their lives. Perspectives which focus on intra-household processes, and on gender issues in particular, represent useful advances in the way that the social and economic lives of Africa's rural peoples are conceptualized. However, this article questions the value of adopting development planning, policy and project approaches based on the rigid identification of `gender roles'. By reference to field research undertaken in northern Ghana, the paper aims to demonstrate that other social constructs, such as marital status and seniority, may be as important as gender in determining the roles and status of individuals in African rural societies. The article concludes by highlighting a number of practical implications of this finding in terms of the structuring of development-oriented research and the targeting of policy and interventions.en
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dc.identifier1012en
dc.identifier.citationDevelopment and Change 28(1): 143-168en
dc.identifier.issn0012-155Xen
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/65889en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherOxford, UK: Blackwell Publishersen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.holderCopyright Institute of Social Studies 1997en
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectCultureen
dc.subjectWomenen
dc.subjectLivelihoodsen
dc.subjectIndigenous communityen
dc.subjectGenderen
dc.subjectMenen
dc.subjectGenderen
dc.subjectWomenen
dc.subjectMenen
dc.subjectHouseholdsen
dc.subjectFarm/Enterprise Scale Governanceen
dc.titleBeyond gender roles? Conceptualizing the social and economic lives of rural peoples in sub-Saharan Africaen
dc.typeAbstracten
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