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Mother Is Gold, Father Is Glass: Gender and Colonialism in a Yoruba Town
Lorelle D. Semley
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Description for Mother Is Gold, Father Is Glass: Gender and Colonialism in a Yoruba Town
Paperback. The politics of motherhood in the Yoruba diaspora Num Pages: 256 pages, 9 b&w illus., 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1HFD; JFSJ1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 392.
Lorelle D. Semley explores the historical and political meanings of motherhood in West Africa and beyond, showing that the roles of women were far more complicated than previously thought. While in Ketu, Benin, Semley discovered that women were treasurers, advisors, ritual specialists, and colonial agents in addition to their more familiar roles as queens, wives, and sisters. These women with special influence made it difficult for the French and others to enforce an ideal of subordinate women. As she traces how women gained prominence, Semley makes clear why powerful mother figures still exist in the symbols and rituals of everyday practices.
Product Details
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Weight
392g
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253222534
SKU
V9780253222534
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About Lorelle D. Semley
Lorelle D. Semley is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Wesleyan University. Her work has been published in Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures and she is a contributor to Crossing Memories: Slavery and African Diaspora (forthcoming).
Reviews for Mother Is Gold, Father Is Glass: Gender and Colonialism in a Yoruba Town
Semley provides historical depth and historiographical sophistication to this study of Yoruba women in West Africa and the Atlantic World.
International Journal of African Historical Studies
'Mother Is Gold, Father Is Glass' is a wonderful contribution to the literature on gender, African women, French colonialism, and the African diaspora.December 2012
H-Africa
Lorelle Semley's engaging study of the historical and symbolic power of motherhood (and fatherhood) in Ketu, a Yoruba town in the Republic of Benin, makes an important contribution to the study of gender and power in the Atlantic world.africa 2013
Africa
Semley's work is a welcome addition to a growing literature on gender and the European encounter with African societies. September 2011
Choice
By excavating [the] ambiguous, shifting space between the rhetoric of Yoruba women's power as queens and mothers, and the realities of women's vulnerability and subordination as wives and slaves, Semley's Mother Is Gold, Father Is Glass makes an original and important contribution to women's history generally and to Yoruba history specifically.54.2 July 2013
Journal of African History
[T]his is an engaging and informative book for scholars interested in African history and gender.
African Studies Quarterly
International Journal of African Historical Studies
'Mother Is Gold, Father Is Glass' is a wonderful contribution to the literature on gender, African women, French colonialism, and the African diaspora.December 2012
H-Africa
Lorelle Semley's engaging study of the historical and symbolic power of motherhood (and fatherhood) in Ketu, a Yoruba town in the Republic of Benin, makes an important contribution to the study of gender and power in the Atlantic world.africa 2013
Africa
Semley's work is a welcome addition to a growing literature on gender and the European encounter with African societies. September 2011
Choice
By excavating [the] ambiguous, shifting space between the rhetoric of Yoruba women's power as queens and mothers, and the realities of women's vulnerability and subordination as wives and slaves, Semley's Mother Is Gold, Father Is Glass makes an original and important contribution to women's history generally and to Yoruba history specifically.54.2 July 2013
Journal of African History
[T]his is an engaging and informative book for scholars interested in African history and gender.
African Studies Quarterly