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What Gender is Motherhood? : Changing Yoru?ba? Ideals of Power, Procreation, and Identity in the Age of Modernity.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan US,
2015.
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| Colección: | Gender and cultural studies in Africa and the diaspora.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; A Note on Orthography; Introduction: Exhuming Subjugated Knowledge and Liberating Marginalized Epistemes; 1. Divining Knowledge: The Man Question in Ifá; 2. (Re)Casting the Yorùbá World: Ifá, Ìyá, and the Signification of Difference; 3. Matripotency: Ìyá in Philosophical Concepts and Sociopolitical Institutions; 4. Writing and Gendering the Past: Akọ̀wé and the Endogenous Production of History; 5. The Gender Dictaters: Making Gender Attributions in Religion and Culture
- 6. Toward a Genealogy of Gender, Gendered Names, and Naming Practices7. The Poetry of Weeping Brides: The Role and Impact of Marriage Residence in the Making of Praise Names; 8. Changing Names: The Roles of Christianity and Islam in Making Yorùbá Names Kosher for the Modern World; Conclusion: Motherhood in the Quest for Social Transformation; Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.