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

Semley, Lorelle D., 1969-

Mother Is Gold, Father Is Glass Gender and Colonialism in a Yoruba Town / [Recurso electrónico] : Lorelle D. Semley. - Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2010. - 1 online resource (xvi, 235 p. ) - Book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-219) and index.

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.

Libro Electrónico

9780253004888 0253004888




Sex role--Africa, West--History.
Mothers--Political activity--History.--Africa, West
Women, Yoruba--Political activity--History.
Women--History.--Benin--Ketou


Africa, West--History--1884-1960.
Ketou (Benin)--History.
Ketou (Benin)--Social life and customs.


Electronic books.

HQ1811.Z9 / K487 2010

305.420966

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