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Buchi Emecheta,

`Feminist Ethnography´: Women's Roles and Women's Networks looking after brothers, helping in the household "These girls when they grow up will be great helpers to you in looking after the  marrying and fetching high bride price "Their bride prices will be used in paying their school fees as well."(p.127) "male daughter": fulfill father's expectations "Her father [...] had few children, and in fact no living son at all, but Ona grew to fill her father's expectation. He had maintained that she must never marry."(p.11f) "Because her father had no son, she had been dedicated to the gods to produce children in his name, not that of any husband."(p.17f) bearing male children (if not, she is a "half woman") "She was failing everybody. There was no child."(p.31) "... for anybody who had no 'two sons', or who only had daughters, or who had no children at all [...], it was better to keep quiet."(p.105) responsible for the economic, social and political reproduction of the household Nnu Ego cooks, economises and is the head of her household


Some of the very old wives would not have to cope with new husbands, because their sons and daughters would provide for them. You go and sit and look after the babies. 188)to form a "power-bloc within the family", e. Just show me where the cooking place is, and I will get your food ready for you. Most of his wives, now elderly, were sympathetic and nursed her mentally back to normal. The three of them moved the bed, chairs, cooking, pots and mattress. 87) educating the children and placing them in their rolesmother of daughters - "grow to rock you children's children" (p. " (Tradition and the African Female Writer, p.

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