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Mother is gold, father is glass : gender and colonialism in a Yoruba town
- Title
- Mother is gold, father is glass : gender and colonialism in a Yoruba town / Lorelle D. Semley.
- Author
- Semley, Lorelle D., 1969-
- Publication
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2011.
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- Description
- xvi, 235 p. : ill., map; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 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 Kétu's secret: wives on the eve of war -- "Where women really matter": the "queens" of Kétu 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.
- Call Number
- Sc E 11-41
- ISBN
- 9780253355454 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0253355451 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780253222534 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0253222532 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2010020121
- OCLC
- YBP 2010020121
- Author
- Semley, Lorelle D., 1969-
- Title
- Mother is gold, father is glass : gender and colonialism in a Yoruba town / Lorelle D. Semley.
- Imprint
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2011.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 11-41