Format:
1 online resource (257 pages)
ISBN:
9780253004888
Content:
Lorelle D. Semley explores the historical and political meanings of motherhood in West Africa and beyond, showing that the roles of women were far more complicated than previously thought. While in Kétu, Bénin, Semley discovered that women were treasurers, advisors, ritual specialists, and colonial agents in addition to their more familiar roles as queens, wives, and sisters. These women with special influence made it difficult for the French and others to enforce an ideal of subordinate women. As she traces how women gained prominence, Semley makes clear why powerful mother figures still exist in the symbols and rituals of everyday practices.
Content:
Cover -- Contents -- Preface: "You Must Be From Here"-An Intellectual and Personal Journey -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Orthography and Language -- Prologue: "Mother is gold, father is glass" -- 1 Founding Fathers and Metaphorical Mothers -- 2 How Kings Lost Their Mothers -- 3 Giving Away Kétu's Secret -- 4 "Where women really matter" -- 5 "Without family . . . there is no true colonization" -- 6 "The Opening of the Eyes" -- 7 Mothers and Fathers of an Atlantic World -- Epilogue: A Rebirth of "Public Mothers" and Kings -- Essay on Sources and Methodology -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Cover; Contents; Preface: "You Must Be From Here"-An Intellectual and Personal Journey; Acknowledgments; Note on Orthography and Language; Prologue: "Mother is gold, father is glass"; 1 Founding Fathers and Metaphorical Mothers; 2 How Kings Lost Their Mothers; 3 Giving Away Kétu's Secret; 4 "Where women really matter"; 5 "Without family . . . there is no true colonization"; 6 "The Opening of the Eyes"; 7 Mothers and Fathers of an Atlantic World; Epilogue: A Rebirth of "Public Mothers" and Kings; Essay on Sources and Methodology; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780253355454
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780253355454
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=624332
