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WRRC Bibliography: Africa, Senegal

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“Have Jola women found a way to resist patriarchy with commodities? (Senegal, West Africa)”
This paper is a study of how commoditisation and female migration among the Jola in Senegal have provided opportunities for women to free themselves from male control over their labour. It questions whether despite these gains, women are nevertheless marginalised in Senegal’s urban economy.
“Islam, women and the role of the state in Senegal”

This paper mentions that while womencould influence decisions, they rarely made the principal choices, as they do not control land, which is the main source of power.

“Land law and economic change in rural Senegal : Diola pledge transactions and disputes”
“Land law and the transition to capitalism: natural history of a Senegalese case study”
Snyder’s three papers above examine how land legislation in Senegal institutionalises the transition to capitalism.
“Land reform and public land ownership in Senegal”
“Microcredit and women moneylenders: the shifting terrain of credit in rural Senegal”

This paper analyzes the new role rural Senegalese women play as moneylenders in their agrarian communities. The shifting terrain of local credit institutions parallels contemporary trends in rural development: state-led agricultural cooperatives, which were introduced in 1960, formerly bolstered...

“The impact of Islam on women in Senegal”

This paper mentions: “Womenreceived plots of landfor their use from their fathers, or if married, from their husbands but they could not pass these on to their heirs, not even to their sons. It also discusses how the household farming system has changed in Senegalin the post-independence period...

“Wolof women, economic liberalization, and the crisis of masculinity in rural Senegal”

As stated in the Abstract, “among Wolof farmers in Senegal's Peanut Basin, patriarchal control of household dependents has diminished in conjunction with economic liberalization, state disengagement, and the formation of rural weekly markets. This article builds on twenty-six months of...

“Women and money: lessons from Senegal”
This paper mentions women’s ownership of, access to and control over land in the context of the complexity and diversity of women's informal financial practices in Senegal. It suggests that these practices are at the centre of a constant dialectic between short-term and long-term horizons, between...