Embodied Engineering: Gendered Labor, Food Security, and Taste in Twentieth-Century Mali

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ISBN: 9780821424414
Author : Laura Ann Twagira
Published: 2021
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Number of pages: 344
Language: English
Format: Hardback
Format: 229×152

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Common narratives about development in Africa miss the critical technological work of women. Twagira’s study instead positions Malian women as rural engineers whose strategic planning and labor over the course of the twentieth century assured their food security.

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