ISBN:
9780230102439
,
1283439883
,
9781283439886
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xiv, 229 p.)
,
ill
Edition:
1st ed
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Gender and Power in Sierra Leone : Women Chiefs of the Last Two Centuries
DDC:
305.409664
Keywords:
Power (Social sciences) History
;
Women History
;
Ethnology-Africa
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
This book addresses the gendered political authority in Sierra Leone, a relatively unknown topic, and looks at the part it plays in women's history, political history, political transformation in Africa, and global women's political leadership
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Gender and Power in Sierra Leone: Women Chiefs of the Last Two Centuries; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction: Gender and Power: The Women Chiefs of Sierra Leone; Background; Contextualizing the Topic; Methodology; Notes on Documentary Sources; Chapter 1: Men's and Women's Cultural Associations: The Construction of Gender and Gendered Authority; Historical Background; Gender Parallels and Intersections in the Wunde, Humoi, Njaye/Yassi, Thoma, and Ragbenle Societies; The Sande Society and Women's Leadership
Description / Table of Contents:
Poro: The Construction of Masculinity and the Legitimation of Political AuthorityCultural Associations, Gender Ambiguity, and Women Chiefs; Summary; Chapter 2: Women of Authority before the Colonial Era; Queens of Sherbro; Titled Queens of Gallinas and Koya; Summary; Chapter 3: Women Chiefs during the Nineteenth-Century Wars of Trade, Expansion, and State Building; Background; The Rise of a Warrior Class; Nyarroh of Bandasuma and the War in the Gallinas; Nenge and the Kpovei Guei (Dung Pot War) of Eastern Mende; Yoko of Senehun: Leader of the Kpaa Mende Confederacy; Summary
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 4: Women Leaders and the Mediation of Colonial RuleThe Era of War Chiefs Ends; Women Chiefs Substitute for War Chiefs; Yoko of Senehun; Women and the Inscription of NdMahei Chieftaincy under Colonial Rule; Maajo Benya; Summary; Chapter 5: Women Chiefs in Building the Independent State; Paramount Chieftaincy and the Evolution of the Nation-State; The New Nation; Women Chiefs in Local Government; Women Chiefs as Representatives of Ruling Families; Women Chiefs and Secret Societies; Women Chiefs as Mediators; Women Chiefs: Party Politics, Power, and Risk
Description / Table of Contents:
Women Chiefs and National PoliticsThe Contradictions of Women's Leadership; Summary; Chapter 6: Civil War and the Attack on Women's Customary Authority; Background to the Sierra Leone Civil War; Civil War; Women Chiefs and the War; Women Chiefs, the Women's Movement for Peace, and the Evolution of a Women's Rights Agenda; Women Chiefs in Postwar Sierra Leone; Women Chiefs, African Feminism, and a Feminist Agenda; Postscript; Conclusion; Appendix: List of Sierra Leone Women Chiefs; Notes; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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