`Feminist Ethnography‘: Women's Roles and Women's Networks
            
             1. TRADITIONAL ROLES OF WOMEN
             • Daughter
              looking after brothers, helping in the household
             "These girls when they grow up will be great helpers to you in looking after the
             boys."(p.127)
              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)
             • Wife
              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
              obeying her husband
             " What did you say? Did I not pay your bride price? Am I not your owner? [...] If you are
             going to be my wife, you must acccept my work, my way of life."(p.48f)
              "senior wife": setting example to younger wives, has the first right on husband
             • Mother
              looking after the children
             "Nnu Ego had another stall in the market and some afternoons she would take Oshia with her, though most mornings he remained with his father. Nnaife did not like this arrangement and grumbled about it, but there was ...