Constraints and incentives in ‘successful’ Zimbabwean peasant agriculture: the interaction between gender and class

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Abstract
This paper analyses the context of social differentiation in which agricultural production takes place in rural Zimbabwe. Crops are grown and livestock raised under conditions partly determined by divisions set in village life along lines of gender and class — a fact rarely noted by policy analysts, but highlighted here. Through a village case study the paper goes on to analyse the ways in which production and reproduction overlap in reality, if not conceptually. The case analysis also offers insights into the interaction between gender and class dynamics which have implications for southern African theoretical debate.