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Biblioteca Land, Labour and Gendered Livelihoods - Feminist Africa - Issue 12, 2009

Land, Labour and Gendered Livelihoods - Feminist Africa - Issue 12, 2009

Land, Labour and Gendered Livelihoods - Feminist Africa - Issue 12, 2009

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Diciembre 2008
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Feminist Africa

[From the editorial] This issue of Feminist Africa seeks to explore the interconnections among economic liberalisation policies, land and resource tenures, and labour relations in the structuring of gendered livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa. The focus on livelihoods departs somewhat from Feminist Africa’s niche in providing cutting-edge feminist analysis of issues of sexual politics and identities, national politics and democratisation processes, higher education and feminist research methodologies.

The importance of land and labour rights to women in sub-Saharan Africa is on account of the predominantly agrarian nature of livelihood activities, whose low technological base makes labour a critical factor. Beyond agriculture, land has a wide array of uses in the organisation of livelihoods and is also the basis of social and political power, and therefore at the heart of gender inequalities in the control of resources. [...]

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