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Women I; Food
by Phil Bartle, PhD
Women are involved with food in four main ways, farming, marketing, cooking and ritual. In all four cases, their involvement is usually as independent producers; they are not managed or controlled by anybody (eg husbands or fathers). The exception is while they are young and learning; they learn from their mothers or other women that raise and socialize them. For more about the traditional independence of Akan women, see Covert Gynocracy. Links are here also to ritual uses of food and to working with clay, more work for women.
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Market Clay Cooking Ritual
Farming
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Farmer
Marketing
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Selling Tomatoes
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Selling Palm Wine
Cooking
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Preparing Fufu
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Fufu in Light Soup
Pottery
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Mpayewa
Extracting Palm Oils
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Palm Oil Preparation
Ritual
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- Gender Hub
- Gender Introduction
- Gender Commensality ; Gender II
- Women I; Food
- Women II; Farming
- Women III (1): Cooking
- Women III (2): Cooking 2
- Women IV: Marketing
- Women V: Clay
- Men I: Wood
- Men II: Weaving
- Men III: Hunting
- Men IV: (1) Transport
- Men IV: (2) Transport
- Men and Women; (1) Oil Palm; Introduction
- Men and Women; (2) Oil Palm; Farming, Oil
- Men and Women; (3) Oil Palm; Wine Tapping
- Men and Women; (4) Oil Palm; Wine Marketting
- Men and Women; (5) Oil Palm; Other Products
- Men and Women; (1) Oil Palm; Conclusion