Mother Is Gold, Father Is Glass : Gender and Colonialism in a Yoruba Town /

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Semley, Lorelle D., 1969-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2010.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Sex role > Africa, West > History.
Mothers > Political activity > Africa, West > History.
Women, Yoruba > Political activity > History.
Women > Benin > Ketou > History.
Africa, West > History > 1884-1960.
Ketou (Benin) > History.
Ketou (Benin) > Social life and customs.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue. "Mother is gold, father is glass": power and vulnerability in Atlantic Africa
  • Founding fathers and metaphorical mothers: history, myth, and the making of a kingdom
  • How kings lost their mothers: politics of the Atlantic slave trade
  • Giving away Ketu's secret: wives on the eve of war
  • "Where women really matter": the "queens" of Ketu and the challenge to French imperialism
  • "Without family-- there is no true colonization": perspectives on marriage
  • "The opening of the eyes": the politics of manhood on the eve of independence
  • Mothers and fathers of an Atlantic world
  • Epilogue. A rebirth of "public mothers" and kings.

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