Mother Is Gold, Father Is Glass [Recurso electrónico] : Gender and Colonialism in a Yoruba Town / Lorelle D. Semley.

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

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