What Gender Is Motherhood? : Changing Yorùbá Ideals of Power, Procreation, and Identity in the Age of Modernity.

Intro -- Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Orthography -- Introduction: Exhuming Subjugated Knowledge and Liberating Marginalized Epistemes -- 1. Divining Knowledge: The Man Question in Ifá -- 2. (Re)Casting the Yorùbá World: Ifá, Ìyá, and the Signification of Difference -- 3. Matripotency: Ìyá in Philosophical Concepts and Sociopolitical Institutions -- 4. Writing and Gendering the Past: Akọ̀wé and the Endogenous Production of History -- 5. The Gender Dictaters: Making Gender Attributions in Religion and Culture -- 6. Toward a Genealogy of Gender, Gendered Names, and Naming Practices -- 7. The Poetry of Weeping Brides: The Role and Impact of Marriage Residence in the Making of Praise Names -- 8. 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 -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index.

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