ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the relations between the sexes especially as they reflected, and affected, the response of men to the urban situation. It utilizes the evidence on domestic and other sexual unions contained in the case studies of Lusaka, Patrice, and Limela to distinguish between marital and non-marital partnerships. The chapter also utilizes the data from the social survey to establish the broad patterns of pairing between men and women in the community. It examines the data on the age, number, and marital status of men and women, and presents the measures of marriage duration in the community as a whole as well as within each of the nine largest ethnic colonies. The chapter considers the relations between the sexes as a variable feature within Stanleyville, and this obviously has important implications for the further assessment of social relations studied in Avenue 21 and its neighbourhood.
