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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459180103321

Autore

Semley Lorelle D. <1969->

Titolo

Mother is gold, father is glass [[electronic resource] ] : gender and colonialism in a Yoruba town / / Lorelle D. Semley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, 2010

ISBN

1-282-97582-X

9786612975820

0-253-00488-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Disciplina

305.420966

Soggetti

Mothers - Political activity - Africa, West - History

Sex role - Africa, West - History

Women - Benin - Kétou - History

Women, Yoruba - Political activity - History

Electronic books.

Africa, West History 1884-1960

Kétou (Benin) History

Kétou (Benin) Social life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.