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Mother is gold, father is glass gender and colonialism in a Yoruba town

Title: Mother is gold, father is glass [electronic resource] : gender and colonialism in a Yoruba town / Lorelle D. Semley.
Author: Semley, Lorelle D., 1969-
Publication: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2010.

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Description

1 online resource (xvi, 235 p.)

Uniform Title

Mother is gold, father is glass (Online)

Alternative Title

Mother is gold, father is glass (Online)

Subject

Women > Benin > Kétou > History
Women, Yoruba > Political activity > History
Mothers > Political activity > History. > Africa, West
Sex role > Africa, West > History
Kétou (Benin) > Social life and customs
Kétou (Benin) > History
Africa, West > History > 1884-1960

Bibliography (note)

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

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Access restricted to authorized users.

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.

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