The Famine of the dams : gender, labour and politics in colonial Ovamboland 1919-1930 / Patricia Hayes
Namibia under South African Rule pages 117 - 148
- Oxford : James Currey, 1998, London: Villiers Publications
- 30 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
Footnotes
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.