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Marriage, bridewealth and power: critical reflections on women's autonomy across settings in Africa

This article examines ongoing discourses on the importance of the marriage payment and its role in constraining women's autonomy across societies in Africa. First, we review how bridewealth has been conceptualised across multiple disciplines, including the work of evolutionary human scientists....

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Autores principales: Akurugu, Constance Awinpoka, Dery, Isaac, Domanban, Paul Bata
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10426024/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37588918
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2022.27