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  • 6 - Gender Roles and Water Practices with the Handpumps

  • Emily Van Houweling
  • Book:
    Water and Aid in Mozambique
    Published online:
    18 August 2022
    Print publication:
    25 August 2022, pp 133-164

  • Summary

    Chapter 6 focuses on the rural water project’s (RWP’s) gender approach and analyses how women experienced the project. In the RWP, gender was approached in a superficial and technical way that did not consider the matrilineal context of Nampula nor the constraints some women faced in participating. The outcomes of the water project for women were ambivalent and could not be easily interpreted within Western development frameworks. The project gave some women more free time and allowed them to fulfil the cultural expectations of a good wife, but it also increased some women’s workloads, reduced their control over water, and created new conflicts and tensions between people. My analysis of how women’s lives changed after the handpumps focuses on women’s intersectional identities and the spatial and temporal dynamics of the water spaces. Women strategically participated and used the handpumps in ways that aligned with their own value systems, while also pushing back against the aspects of the project that disrupted their lives and social relationships.