
Ann WhiteheadUniversity of Sussex · Department of Anthropology
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This is a case study of rural producer households in the savannah farming area of North East Ghana where an increasing amount of cash cropping as an integral part of the domestic economy has coincided with increasingly widespread famine and chronic food shortages. The article emphasises just how complex particular historical experiences of cashcrop...
An introductory note on some of the theoretical assumptions made by the IDS Subordination of Women Workshop, and on the specialised language used. It is argued that the analytical object of study cannot be ‘women’ (an empirical category) but rather the relations between men and women in society. Three types of gender relations are specified and des...
SUMMARY This article highlights the importance of understanding the dynamics of commonality and conflicts of interest among women for researchers grass roots activists and policy makers. Women do not constitute a homogeneous category and class divisions as well as defferences arising from hierarchy in kinship networks may in certain contexts be cru...
Gender and development has grown enormously as a field over the last thirty years. In this introduction, we interrogate the ambivalence that underpins feminist engagement with development and examine what current dilemmas may suggest about the relationship between feminist knowledge and development practice. In recent years, there has been growing...
This paper explores local poverty and wealth inequality in the Upper East Region of northern Ghana in the period from 1975-89. Land was not scarce and the social management of household membership and household labour were critical to household security, but this social management was not independent of wealth status. There was a virtuous circle be...
This article examines some contemporary policy discourses on land tenure reform in sub–Saharan Africa and their implications for women's interests in land. It demonstrates an emerging consensus among a range of influential policy institutions, lawyers and academics about the potential of so–called customary systems of land tenure to meet the needs...
This paper discusses a methodology in which livelihood change is investigated through the livelihood strategies of individually traced households that have been studied at two separate points in time. The area studied is in the north of Ghana, where anthropological fieldwork was carried out in 1975 and again in 1989. The paper discusses significant...
This paper examines how we measure work and labour in agriculture in rural sub-Saharan Africa. It has increasingly been recognised that many rural African women have heavy workloads; in some accounts, this is contrasted with apparently light work burdens for men. I argue that in making women's work visible, where once it was not, it is possible to...
Since the late 1980s, Poverty Assessments have emerged as the most important statements by the World Bank about poverty in particular countries. This article examines, in some depth, a set of Assessments from four sub-Saharan African countries from a gender perspective. These Assessments display an enormous variation in the extent to which gender i...
Whole issue. Incl. abstracts, bibl. This IDS Bulletin reflects on the contested relationship between feminism and development, and the challenges for reasserting feminist engagement with development as a political project. It arises from the 'Gender Myths and Feminist Fables: Repositioning Gender in Development Policy and Practice' workshop held at...