essay
Women as owners, occupants, and managers of property in colonial western Kenya
African women & the law : historical perspectives • [boston] • Published In 1982 • Pages: 110-123
By: Hay, Margaret Jean.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article discusses the effects of British colonialism, 1895-1963, on women's socioeconomic status in western Kenya. It argues that male migration to towns during this period increased rural women's vulnerability to poverty. It further argues that colonial land policy, which gradually instituted private ownership of land, led to women's landlessness and economic marginalization. In the absence of the husband, women were legally reduced to mere 'care takers' of men's occupancy. Yet rural family depended on women's labor for gardening and food production.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Gender status
- Real property
- Gender roles and issues
- Division of labor by gender
- Labor supply and employment
- Household
- Family relationships
- External relations
- Basis of marriage
- Property in movables
- Mode of marriage
- Acculturation and culture contact
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Luo
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2010
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Eastern Africa
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Historian
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Teferi Abate Adem; 2009
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1968-1988
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1895-1963
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Luoland, Kenya
- NotesAdditional notes
- Margaret Jean Hay
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 82231480
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Luo (Kenyan and Tanzanian people)