"Housewivisation"

So I am taking a class called "Gender, the Environment, and Social Change" and we read something that really struck me as an interesting topic to talk about here on this blog.  We always talk about how being a housewife has been an American Ideal and shows women in the perfect suburban families and how everyone should want to be like them, but we never really talk about where the idea truly originated.  I was reading about how housewives were introduced into different cultures, and one of them was extremely interesting and shows how "housewivisation" stemmed from racism.  This piece that I read was an excerpt from "Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale" by, Maria Mies.  She talks a lot about how Africa in particular had many white male settlers come in and marry these African women, but then when the royals of their colonies heard word of this and thought about procreation and mixing of races, the felt that they had to do something to ensure that they would not lose their power over the native African people, so they made it illegal for these men to marry African women, and those who had already married African women had to have their marriages voided.  The colonies even took it one step further and imported white women to become wives for these men while they were living in Africa.  These wives became property and stereotypical housewives for these men while they were working.  And not only that but it perpetuated this idea the African women were good enough to be prostitutes (because that is what they ended up taking on as professions after they lost their husbands) but not good enough to be wives.  Any thoughts on this subject??