MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 01788cam a22003134a 4500
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008 100521s2010 inu b 001 0 eng
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050 00 $aHQ1811.Z9$bK487 2010
082 00 $a305.420966$222
100 1 $aSemley, Lorelle D.,$d1969-
245 10 $aMother is gold, father is glass :$bgender and colonialism in a Yoruba town /$cLorelle D. Semley.
260 $aBloomington :$bIndiana University Press,$cc2010.
300 $axvi, 235 p. ;$c23 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [201]-219) and index.
505 0 $aPrologue. "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.
650 0 $aWomen$zBenin$zKétou$xHistory.
650 0 $aWomen, Yoruba$xPolitical activity$xHistory.
650 0 $aMothers$xPolitical activity$zAfrica, West$xHistory.
650 0 $aSex role$xAfrica, West$xHistory.
651 0 $aKétou (Benin)$xSocial life and customs.
651 0 $aKétou (Benin)$xHistory.
651 0 $aAfrica, West$xHistory$y1884-1960.