TY - BOOK AU - Semley,Lorelle D. ED - Project Muse. TI - Mother Is Gold, Father Is Glass: Gender and Colonialism in a Yoruba Town SN - 9780253004888 AV - HQ1811.Z9 K487 2010 U1 - 305.420966 PY - 2010/// CY - Bloomington PB - Indiana University Press KW - Sex role KW - Africa, West KW - History KW - Mothers KW - Political activity KW - Women, Yoruba KW - Women KW - Benin KW - Ketou KW - 1884-1960 KW - Ketou (Benin) KW - Social life and customs KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - 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 UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/325/ UR - http://www.udb.edu.sv/biblioteca/inicio_recursos_electronicos.php ER -