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Queens, queen mothers, priestesses, and power : case studies in African gender

Title
  1. Queens, queen mothers, priestesses, and power : case studies in African gender / edited by Flora Edouwaye S. Kaplan.
Published by
  1. New York : New York Academy of Sciences, 1997.

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Additional authors
  1. Kaplan, Flora S.
Description
  1. xxvi, 448 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.
Series statement
  1. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences ; v. 810
Subject
  1. Leadership in women > Africa, Sub-Saharan > Congresses
  2. Women > Africa, Sub-Saharan > Congresses
  3. Elite (Social sciences) > Africa, Sub-Saharan > Congresses
Contents
  1. Gender and the politics of support and protection in precolonial West Africa / Sandra T. Barnes -- The kpojito or "queen mother" of precolonial Dahomey / Edna G. Bay -- Asante queen mothers / Beverly J. Stoeltje -- Iyoba, the queen mother of Benin : images and ambiguity in gender and sex roles in court art / Flora E.S. Kaplan -- Eze mmiri di egwu, the water monarch is awesome : reconsidering the Mammy Water myths / Sabine Jell-Bahlsen -- Labotsibeni/Gwamile Mduli : the power behind the Swazi throne 1875-1925 / Thoko Ginindza -- Authority and influence in the Kano harem / Beverly B. Mack -- Market queens : innovation within Akan tradition / Gracia Clark -- Women of power : a study of market women's associations in Benin City, Bendel State, Nigeria / Adesuwa C. Emovon -- Onitsha women : the traditional context for political power / Helen Kreider Henderson -- "Runaway wives," native law and custom in Benin, and early colonial courts, Nigeria / Flora Edouwaye S. Kaplan -- Women's rituals, kingship and power among the Ondo-Yoruba of Nigeria / Jacob K. Olupona -- On (men?) placing women in ebira / John Picton -- Designing women, Cameroon / Nigel Barley -- The king's male-order bride : the modern making of a Yorùbá priest / J. Lorand Matory -- Images of women in the Ifá literary corpus / 'Wande Abimbọla -- Priestesses and power among the riverine Igbo / Flora Nwapa -- Gender and traditional village art in Benin Province, Nigeria / Alexander Lopasic.
Call number
  1. Sc D 97-1071
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Title
  1. Queens, queen mothers, priestesses, and power : case studies in African gender / edited by Flora Edouwaye S. Kaplan.
Imprint
  1. New York : New York Academy of Sciences, 1997.
Series
  1. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences ; v. 810
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added author
  1. Kaplan, Flora S.
LCCN
  1. 96052006
ISBN
  1. 1573310549 (cloth : alk. paper)
  2. 1573310557 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Research call number
  1. Sc D 97-1071
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