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WOMEN AND THE PUBLIC DRINKING PLACE: A CASE STUDY OF ADO‐EKITI, NIGERIA
Author(s) -
Hathaway James T.
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
singapore journal of tropical geography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.538
H-Index - 42
eISSN - 1467-9493
pISSN - 0129-7619
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9493.1996.tb00089.x
Subject(s) - yoruba , context (archaeology) , consumption (sociology) , theme (computing) , politics , reproduction , gender studies , sociology , political science , economic growth , geography , economics , social science , law , archaeology , ecology , philosophy , linguistics , computer science , biology , operating system
This paper uses the bars of Ado‐Ekiti as a site to explore the use of urban space by women and men. Ado‐Ekiti is a Yoruba city of 150,000 people in southwestern Nigeria. Feminist and political economy perspectives are used in developing the three‐part theme of the way that gender intersects with the relations between bars and production, bars and reproduction, and bars and consumption. A look at the history of alcohol in Nigeria and of Yoruba women as traders and their cultural role provides context. Survey results and personal observations connect empirical findings to the tripartite theme. Women own and run three fourths of Ado‐Ekiti's two hundred plus bars, but men control the upscale bars. Many of Ado's female bar owners are on the receiving end of an exploitative relationship with the global economy via the brewing industry, in a patriarchal society that assigns them a heavy reproductive burden.