Women's groups and women's subordination: an analysis of policies towards rural women in Kenya
Women's groups and women's subordination: an analysis of policies towards rural women in Kenya
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妇女团体和妇女的从属地位：肯尼亚农村妇女政策分析
DOI：
10.1080/03056248308703547
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发表时间：
1983
影响因子：
1.3
通讯作者：
Rayah A Feldman
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作者：
Rayah A Feldman
肯尼亚的农村妇女承受着繁重的工作负担，她们往往不仅要负责照顾家庭需要--包括为家人提供食物--而且还要像临时工一样工作。由于无法获得从出售家庭种植的经济作物中获得的收入，它们进一步受到阻碍，尽管它们往往为种植这种作物贡献了劳动力。在这些和其他方面，他们遭受了性别关系的影响，这使他们在经济上处于从属地位。肯尼亚政府承认妇女处于“弱势地位”，并已正式承诺改善她们的处境。然而，经济和政治危机往往转移了人们对包括妇女在内的肯尼亚受压迫群体的需求的关注。但在任何情况下，普遍认为的以“让妇女参与发展”为基础的解决办法会带来重大变化，这一点是值得怀疑的。蕾亚·费尔德曼检查了一组组织。
Rural women in Kenya are burdened by heavy workloads, often being responsible not just for attending to domestic needs — including provision of food for their families — but having as well to work as casual labourers. They are further hampered by lack of access to income obtained from the sale of cash crops grown by the household, even though they often contribute labour to the cultivation of such crops. In these and other ways they suffer the impact of gender relations which place them firmly in a position of economic subordination. The Kenyan government has acknowledged that women are ‘disadvantaged’ and has made a formal commitment to alleviate their situation. Economic and political crises, however, have tended to displace attention from the needs of oppressed groups in Kenya, including women. But it would be questionable in any case that the prevailing perception of a solution based on ‘integrating women into development’ would bring about significant change. Rayah Feldman examines a set of organisat...