Between the “addiction school” and the “temperate world of rhythm and poetry”: experiences of “indigenous” working women in Lourenço Marques (1900-1940)

Abstract

This article pretends to analyze the new and unique experiences of so-called “indigenous” women in Lourenço Marques - now Maputo, Mozambique - created as they interact with the various models of male domination and, at the same time, with the recently colonial institutions created by the Portuguese to regulate the social life of native people of the southern Mozambique.

Keywords:
Lourenço Marques; colonialism; native women workers