Mother is gold, father is glass
Subtitle: gender and colonialism in a Yoruba town
By: Lorelle D. Semley
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780253355454; 9780253222534
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue. "Mother is gold, father is glass": power and vulnerability in Atlantic Africa; title: Founding fathers and metaphorical mothers: history, myth, and the making of a kingdom; title: How kings lost their mothers: politics of the Atlantic slave trade; title: Giving away Kétu's secret: wives on the eve of war; title: "Where women really matter": the "queens" of Kétu and the challenge to French imperialism; title: "Without family; title: there is no true colonization": perspectives on marriage; title: "The opening of the eyes": the politics of manhood on the eve of independence; title: Mothers and fathers of an Atlantic world; title: Epilogue. A rebirth of "public mothers" and kings.