What gender is motherhood? : changing Yorùbá ideals on power, procreation, and identity in the age of modernity /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2016.
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| Series: | Gender and cultural studies in Africa and the diaspora.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Exhuming subjugated knowledge and liberating marginalized epistemes
- Divining knowledge: the man question in if?
- (Re)casting the Yorùbá world: Ifá, Ìyá and the signification of difference
- Matripotency: Ìyá in philosophical concempts and socio-policial institutions
- Writing and gendering the past: Akọ̀wé and the endogenous production of history
- The gender dictaters: making gender attributions in religion and culture
- Towards a genealogy of gender, gendered names, and naming practices
- The poetry of weeping brides: the role and impact of marriage residence in the making of praise names
- Changing names: the roles of Christianity and Islam in making Yorùbá names kosher for the modern world
- Conclusion: Motherhood in the quest for social transformation.