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Mother is gold, father is glass = gender andcolonialism in a Yoruba town /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Mother is gold, father is glass/ Lorelle D. Semley.
Reminder of title:	gender andcolonialism in a Yoruba town /
Author:	Semley, Lorelle D.,
Published:	Bloomington :Indiana University Press, : c2010.,
Description:	1 online resource (xvi, 235 p.).
Subject:	Sex role - Africa, West -
Subject:	Africa, West - Colonial influence. -
Online resource:	Full text available:
ISBN:	9780253004888 (electronic bk.)

Mother is gold, father is glass = gender andcolonialism in a Yoruba town /
Semley, Lorelle D.,1969-

Mother is gold, father is glassgender andcolonialism in a Yoruba town /[electronic resource] :Lorelle D. Semley. - Bloomington :Indiana University Press,c2010. - 1 online resource (xvi, 235 p.).

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

Prologue. "Mother is gold, father is glass": power and vulnerabilityin Atlantic Africa -- Founding fathers and metaphorical mothers: history, myth, and the making of a kingdom -- How kings losttheir mothers: politics of the Atlantic slave trade -- Giving away Ketu's secret: wives on the eve of war -- "Where women really matter": the "queens" of Ketu and the challenge to French imperialism -- "Without family-- there isno true colonization": perspectives on marriage -- "The opening of theeyes": the politics of manhood on the eve of independence -- Mothers and fathers of an Atlantic world-- Epilogue. A rebirth of "public mothers" and kings.

ISBN: 9780253004888 (electronic bk.)Subjects--Topical Terms:

947268
Sex role
--Africa, WestSubjects--Geographical Terms:

802890
Africa, West
--Colonial influence.

LC Class. No.: HQ1811.Z9 / K487 2010

Dewey Class. No.: 305.420966

Mother is gold, father is glass = gender andcolonialism in a Yoruba town /
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