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Bay, Edna G.

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“…Moreover, through the forced production of cash crops and/or forced labour in road construction, plantations, and mines, colonial intervention in sub‐Saharan Africa reinforced women's role as food producers (Boserup, [1970]) and even their subordinate role in conjugal relations as well as in the public sphere (e.g. Bay, , p. 10). As we will see, this did not happen among the Balanta.…”

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Men wielding the plough: Changing patterns of production and reproduction among the Balanta of Guinea‐Bissau

Temudo

2017

Journal of Agrarian Change

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This paper is centred on the fast-track changes occurring among the Balanta of Guinea-Bissau-at present, the only ethnic group in West Africa still able to produce a mangrove swamp rice surplus with a manual plough-in their traditionally intensive farming system and their social organization, and on the consequences that these changes have had for gender relations, especially with regard to married women 0 s spatial mobility, sexual and economic independence, and access to land, labour, and capital. In doing so, the paper contributes to old debates about the relationship between means of production and gendered power dynamics in contexts where African societies based on domestic modes of production progressively embrace the market economy. The Balanta case offers a new layer of complexity to this debate due to their long-term resistance to westernization and market integration, their particular conjugal relations, and the paradoxical way in which women have been losing their traditional rights.

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