Embodied engineering : gendered labor, food security, and taste in twentieth-century Mali /

Embodied engineering : gendered labor, food security, and taste in twentieth-century Mali / Laura Ann Twagira.

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"By advocating for an understanding of rural Malian women as engineers, Laura Ann Twagira rejects the persistent image of African women as subjects without technological knowledge or access and instead reveals a hidden history about gender, development, and improvisation. In so doing, she also...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Twagira, Laura Ann (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2021.
Series:New African histories series.
Subjects:
Mali. > Office du Niger.
Women in agriculture > Mali.
Agricultural development projects > Mali.
Agricultural processing > Mali.
Women > Mali > Economic conditions.
Agricultural development projects.
Agricultural processing.
Women > Economic conditions.
Women in agriculture.
Mali.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Making the Generous Cooking Pot: ca. 1890-1920
  • Body Politics, Taste, and the Creation of the Office du Niger ca. 1920-1944
  • 'We farmed money': Re-shaping the Office and Reclaiming Taste
  • Re-Engineering the Office: Cooking with Metal Pots and Threshing Machines
  • Rice Babies and Food Aid: Re-Engineering Women's Labor and Taste during the Great Sahel Drought
  • Conclusion.

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