This article explores logics of affordability and worth within rural Ugandan households. Through an analysis of how worth is ascribed to certain goods, from the morally ambiguous personal consumption of alcohol and beauty products to the “responsible” category of educational spending and sanitary pads, the article demonstrates how gender norms and anxieties are marked and sustained in the consumption practices of the household, constituting what is deemed necessary, affordable, and responsible. Moral obligation is differentially distributed between genders: women are deemed responsible for household expenditure, their personal consumption preferences constrained, whereas men are able to delimit a sphere of personal consumption separate from the household, with limited accountability to its moral requirements. The gendered nature of power relations is thus revealed both in the apportioning of moral duty and in the construction of affordability through which consumption is enabled.

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负担能力和价值的逻辑：乌干达农村地区的性别消费

本文探讨了乌干达农村家庭的可负担性和价值逻辑。通过对某些商品的价值归属进行分析，从道德上模棱两可的个人消费酒精和美容产品，到“负责任”的教育支出和卫生巾类别，本文证明了性别规范和焦虑在家庭中是如何被标记和维持的。家庭的消费习惯，构成必需的，负担得起的和负责任的。道德义务在性别之间有不同的分配：妇女被认为负责家庭支出，他们的个人消费偏好受到限制，而男人能够划定一个独立于家庭的个人消费领域，对其道德要求的责任有限。