Yoruba Women, Work, and Social Change
Author | : Marjorie Keniston McIntosh |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Women, Yoruba |
ISBN | : 9789788135661 |
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Author | : Marjorie Keniston McIntosh |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Women, Yoruba |
ISBN | : 9789788135661 |
Author | : Marjorie K. McIntosh |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2009-03-18 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
The Yoruba, one of the largest and most historically important ethnic groups in Nigeria, are noted for the economic activity, confidence, and authority of their women. Yoruba Women, Work, and Social Change traces the history of women in Yorubaland from around 1820 to 1960 and Nigerian independence. Integrating fresh material from local court records and four decades of existing scholarship, Marjorie Keniston McIntosh shows how and why women's roles and status changed during the 19th century and the colonial era. McIntosh emphasizes connections between their duties within the household, their income-generating work, and their responsibilities in religious, cultural, social, and political contexts. She highlights the forms of patriarchy found within Yorubaland and explores the impact of Christianity, colonialism, and international capitalism. This keen and insightful work offers a unique view of Yoruba women's initiative, adaptability, and skill at working in groups.
Author | : Simi Afonja |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Women |
ISBN | : |
Author | : ʼLai Olurode |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Nigeria |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí |
Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 1997-10 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1452903255 |
The "woman question", this book asserts, is a Western one, and not a proper lens for viewing African society. A work that rethinks gender as a Western contruction, The Invention of Women offers a new way of understanding both Yoruban and Western cultures. Oyewumi traces the misapplication of Western, body-oriented concepts of gender through the history of gender discourses in Yoruba studies. Her analysis shows the paradoxical nature of two fundamental assumptions of feminist theory: that gender is socially constructed in old Yoruba society, and that social organization was determined by relative age.
Author | : Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2016-04-29 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1137521252 |
In this book, Oyěwùmí extends her path-breaking thesis that in Yorùbá society, construction of gender is a colonial development since the culture exhibited no gender divisions in its original form. Taking seriously indigenous modes and categories of knowledge, she applies her finding of a non-gendered ontology to the social institutions of Ifá, motherhood, marriage, family and naming practices. Oyěwùmí insists that contemporary assertions of male dominance must be understood, in part, as the work of local intellectuals who took marching orders from Euro/American mentors and colleagues. In exposing the depth of the coloniality of power, Oyěwùmí challenges us to look at the worlds we inhabit, anew.
Author | : Elke E. Stockreiter |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2015-03-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1316240223 |
After the abolition of slavery in 1897, Islamic courts in Zanzibar (East Africa) became central institutions where former slaves negotiated socioeconomic participation. By using difficult-to-read Islamic court records in Arabic, Elke E. Stockreiter reassesses the workings of these courts as well as gender and social relations in Zanzibar Town during British colonial rule (1890–1963). She shows how Muslim judges maintained their autonomy within the sphere of family law and describes how they helped advance the rights of women, ex-slaves, and other marginalised groups. As was common in other parts of the Muslim world, women usually had to buy their divorce. Thus, Muslim judges played important roles as litigants negotiated moving up the social hierarchy, with ethnicisation increasingly influencing all actors. Drawing on these previously unexplored sources, this study investigates how Muslim judges both mediated and generated discourses of inclusion and exclusion based on social status rather than gender.
Author | : Aribidesi Usman |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 519 |
Release | : 2019-07-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107064600 |
A rich and accessible account of Yoruba history, society and culture from the pre-colonial period to the present.
Author | : Niara Sudarkasa |
Publisher | : U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY |
Total Pages | : 191 |
Release | : 1973-01-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 1949098060 |
Author | : Akinwumi Ogundiran |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2020-11-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0253051525 |
The Yoruba: A New History is the first transdisciplinary study of the two-thousand-year journey of the Yoruba people, from their origins in a small corner of the Niger-Benue Confluence in present-day Nigeria to becoming one of the most populous cultural groups on the African continent. Weaving together archaeology with linguistics, environmental science with oral traditions, and material culture with mythology, Ogundiran examines the local, regional, and even global dimensions of Yoruba history. The Yoruba: A New History offers an intriguing cultural, political, economic, intellectual, and social history from ca. 300 BC to 1840. It accounts for the events, peoples, and practices, as well as the theories of knowledge, ways of being, and social valuations that shaped the Yoruba experience at different junctures of time. The result is a new framework for understanding the Yoruba past and present.