Focusing on conjugal production and reproduction in colonial Asante, this text seeks to understand how broader social and economic factors - cash cropping, trade, monetization of the economy, British rule and Christian missions -recast the terms of domestic struggle and how ordinary men and women negotiated an ever-shifting landscape. By centring their analysis on Asante women, the authors provide building blocks for constructing a broader social historyof a society whose past has largely been understood in terms of the state, political evolution, trade, and the careers of political elites. Based primarily upon the recollections of Asante men and women born during the years 1900to 1925, the volume reconstructs and preserves for future generations the resiliency and tenacity of a generation of Asante women and their struggles to assert and defend economic autonomy.
- ISBN10 0852556411
- ISBN13 9780852556412
- Publish Date 19 October 2000
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 5 June 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint James Currey
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 256
- Language English