The famine of the dams : gender, labour and politics in colonial Ovamboland 1919-1930 / Patricia Hayes

Hayes, Patricia

The famine of the dams : gender, labour and politics in colonial Ovamboland 1919-1930 / Patricia Hayes Trees never meet Mobility and containment in Namibia 1915-1945 - Windhoek : U NA M, 1994 - 38 pages; 30 cm

Conference, History Department of U NA M, Windhoek. 25th - 28th August 1994

In a world tilted against them, rural women in Ovamboland briefly entered the public space during the 'famine of the dams'. They did so on a basis of division of labour endorsed by the state, on terms dictated by the state.


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