This article provides a retelling of "the shock of the old" by contrasting a technology long associated with women in Africa, the mortar and pestle, with new labor-saving "machines." She learns that many women have a problem with technologies seemingly meant to promote women's development. She asks: what's wrong with machines that will do the cooking for women?
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