Penvenne’s book illuminates the important role that women played in the rise of a vibrant colonial cashew economy in Lourenço Marques (Maputo, Mozambique) from 1945 to 1975. It moves away from the orthodox male-dominated history of labour migration within a colonial economy and chronicles a nuanced gendered history of the cashew economy when Mozambique became the world’s largest combined producer of raw and processed cashew nuts. Faced with an androcentric published and colonial archival record, Penvenne engages ethnographic oral histories (life histories and songs) of three generations of Mozambican women who migrated to Maputo to toil in cashew factories (constituting about 80 per cent of the factory workers) to showcase urban African women’s agency and productivity. Women actually abandoned their traditional farming (the communal hoe) to join or embrace the lucrative cashew economy or what they called “the hoe of the city” (p. 1).

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莫桑比克南部的妇女、移民和腰果经济，1945 年至 1975 年，作者：Jeanne Marie Penvenne

Penvenne 的书阐明了 1945 年至 1975 年，妇女在 Lourenço Marques（莫桑比克马普托）充满活力的殖民腰果经济崛起中发挥的重要作用。它摆脱了殖民经济和编年史中劳动力迁移的正统男性主导历史当莫桑比克成为世界上最大的生腰果和加工腰果联合生产国时，腰果经济有着微妙的性别历史。面对以男性为中心的出版和殖民档案记录，Penvenne 使用了移居马普托在腰果工厂（约占工厂工人的 80%）辛勤工作的三代莫桑比克妇女的民族志口述历史（生活史和歌曲），以展示城市非洲妇女的能动性和生产力。