'I think a woman who travels a lot is befriending other men and that's why she travels': mobility constraints and their implications for rural women and girls in sub-Saharan Africa
'I think a woman who travels a lot is befriending other men and that's why she travels': mobility constraints and their implications for rural women and girls in sub-Saharan Africa
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DOI：
10.1080/0966369x.2011.535304
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发表时间：
2011-01-01
影响因子：
1.8
通讯作者：
Porter, Gina
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作者：
Porter, Gina
这篇文章关注的是撒哈拉以南非洲农村地区妇女和女童流动的做法、政治和意义的影响。妇女和女孩通常面临严重的流动限制，影响到她们的生计和生活机会。这篇文章反映了她们在农村地区的经历，在农村地区，重男轻女的体制（包括性别分工，这种分工非常强调女性劳动力对家庭生产和生殖的贡献）以及关于妇女流动性、脆弱性和性欲之间联系的重男轻女话语，塑造了日常社会习俗和物质不平等。这加剧了（获得服务和进入市场的）便利性差所造成的有形限制，而这些便利性又与道路状况差和运输不充分有关，直接和更复杂的方式都是如此。本文借鉴了在不同的社会文化和农业生态环境在西部和南部非洲（主要是加纳南部，马拉维南部和北方和中部尼日利亚）进行的实地研究，探讨妇女和女孩的相对固定和不良的服务获得的影响。对三个（相互关联的）问题作了较为详细的审查：市场准入、教育准入和保健服务准入。可能的干预措施，以启动积极的变化被认为是。
This article is concerned with the implications of practices, politics and meanings of mobility for women and girl children in rural areas of sub-Saharan Africa. Women and girls commonly face severe mobility constraints which affect their livelihoods and their life chances. The article reflects on their experiences in rural areas where patriarchal institutions (including the gender division of labour, which places great emphasis on female labour contributions to household production and reproduction), and a patriarchal discourse concerning linkages between women's mobility, vulnerability and sexual appetite, shape everyday social practices and material inequalities. This compounds the physical constraints imposed by poor accessibility (to services and markets) associated with poor roads and inadequate transport in both direct and more complex ways. The article draws on field research conducted in diverse socio-cultural and agro-ecological contexts in western and southern Africa (principally southern Ghana, southern Malawi and northern and central Nigeria) to explore the impacts of relative immobility and poor service access on women and girls. Three (interconnected) issues are examined in some detail: access to markets, access to education and access to health services. Possible interventions to initiate positive change are considered.