Church Missionary Society evangelists and women's labour in nineteenth-century Abẹ́òkúta
| Autor: | Temilola Alanamu |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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05 social sciences Geography Planning and Development Yoruba Economic independence Context (language use) Indigenous culture language.human_language Indigenous Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) 050903 gender studies Anthropology language Institution Bourgeoisie Sociology 0509 other social sciences Humanities media_common |
| Zdroj: | Africa. 88:291-311 |
| ISSN: | 1750-0184 0001-9720 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/s0001972017000924 |
| Popis: | This article is about women's labour in nineteenth-century Abeoku ta, in presentday south-west Nigeria. It is based on primary research which explores women's economic independence and its intricate connection to the indigenous institution of polygyny. By examining the institution from the perspective of Anglican Church Missionary Society evangelists, it also demonstrates how indigenous culture conflicted with the newly introduced Christian religion and its corresponding Victorian bourgeois ideals of the male breadwinner and the female homemaker. It investigates the extent to which missionaries understood women's work in the Yoruba context, their representations of the practice, their attempts to halt female labour and their often unsuccessful efforts to extricate their congregations and their own families from these local practices. It argues that European Christian principles not only coloured missionary perceptions of women's labour, but influenced their opinions of the entire Yoruba matrimonial arrangement. Resume: Cet article traite du travail des femmes a Abeoku ta, dans la region sud-ouest de l'actuel Nigeria, au dix-neuvieme siecle. Il se fonde sur la recherche primaire qui examine l'independance economique des femmes et son lien complexe avecl'institution indigene de polygynie. En examinant cette institution du point de vue des evangelistes anglicans de la Church Missionary Society, il demontre egalement comment la culture indigene contrastait avec la religion chretienne nouvellement introduite et ses ideaux bourgeois victoriens de l'homme soutien de famille et de la femme au foyer. Il etudie dans quelle mesure les missionnaires comprenaient le travail des femmes dans le contexte yoruba, leurs representations de la pratique, leurs tentatives de faire cesser le travail des femmes et leurs efforts souvent infructueux de desengager leurs congregations et leurs propres familles de ces pratiques locales. Il soutient que les principes chretiens europeens non seulement teintaient les perceptions des missionnaires sur le travail des femmes, mais influencaient leur opinion du mode matrimonial yoruba. |
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