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050 00 $aDT571.N74$bG64 1995
082 00 $a305.3/096711$220
100 1 $aGoheen, Miriam.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n87139741
245 10 $aMen own the fields, women own the crops :$bgender and power in the Cameroon grassfields /$cMiriam Goheen.
260 $aMadison :$bUniversity of Wisconsin Press,$c[1996], ©1996.
263 $a9605
300 $axx, 252 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 234-244) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tIntroduction --$g2.$tNso' Geography and Social Setting: A Background --$g3.$tThe Forging of Hegemony --$g4.$tFemale Farmers, Male Warriors: Gendering Production and Reproduction --$g5.$tSum and Nsay: Access to Resources and the Sex/Gender Hierarchy --$g6.$tThe Fon's New Leopards, or Sorcerers of the Night? The Articulation of Male Hegemony --$g7.$tCounterhegemony and Dissent on the Periphery: Chiefs, Subchiefs, and the Modern State --$g8.$tConclusion: Gender, Protest, and New Forms of Stratification.
520 $aWomen's labor - producing both crops and children - has long been the linchpin of male status and power throughout Africa. This book lucidly interprets the intricate relations of gender to state-building in Africa by looking historically at control over production and reproduction, from the nineteenth century to the present.
520 8 $aMiriam Goheen examines struggles over power within the Nso' chiefdom in the highlands of Western Cameroon, between the chiefdom and the state, and between men and women, as the women increasingly reject traditional marriages.
520 8 $aBased on a decade of fieldwork, this work tracks the negotiations between chiefs and subchiefs and women and men over ritual power, economic power, and administrative power. Though Nso' men obviously dominate their society at both the local level and nationally, women have had power of their own by virtue of their status as women. Men may own the land, for example, but women control the crops through their labor.
520 8 $aGoheen explains clearly the place of gender in very complex historical processes, such as land tenure systems, title societies, chieftancy, marriage systems, changing ideas of symbolic capital, and internal and external politics.
520 8 $aIn examining women's resistance to traditional patterns of marriage, Goheen raises the question of whether such actions truly change the balance of power between the sexes, or whether resistance to marriage is instead fostering the formation of a new elite class, since it is only the better-educated women of wealthier families who can change the dynamic of power and labor within the household.
650 0 $aNso (African people)$xSocial conditions.
650 0 $aSex role$zCameroon.
651 0 $aCameroon$xSocial conditions$y1960-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85019147
651 0 $aCameroon$xPolitics and government$y1982-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86001072
852 00 $bleh$hDT571.N74$iG64 1996
852 00 $bbar$hDT571.N74$iG64 1995