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Have Men Become the Weaker Sex? Changing Life Situations in Kisii District, Kenya

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2008

Margrethe Silberschmidt
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The ‘discovery’ of third-world women and their situation followed in the wake of research by feminists in western societies. In the late 1960s, Ester Boserup documented that especially African rural women had experienced a major increase in their workload during this century; they had become the main producers not only of subsistence food but also of cash crops.

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The Journal of Modern African Studies , Volume 30 , Issue 2 , June 1992 , pp. 237 - 253
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1992

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