HIS102Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Great Lakes Region, Buganda
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In the kin corporation, the mode of production, the organization of men"s and women"s work often reinforce the differences: the way labour is organized reinforces the differences between spouses and the similarities between sisters. Wives gain access to the means of production through their husbands and husbands will exert different control over their wives, particularly their wives labour: the husband"s family controls the productivity of the wife. The sister and the brother are equal and so the wife is a subordinate relation of the husband: yet, every wife is also a sister and as such can claim the productive means of the brother"s wives. In the kin corporate mode of relation, a women"s adult life cycle rotates between two productive relationships: 1. Wifehood in which case she works for and bears children for the husband"s group. Nonetheless, as the woman"s children grow-up, the woman may become more involved even in a kin corporation which is not hers: 2.
