Wives of the leopard : gender, politics, and culture in the Kingdom of Dahomey / Edna G. Bay.
Material type: TextPublisher: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, [1998]Copyright date: ©1998Description: xv, 376 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0813917913
- 9780813917917
- 0813917921
- 9780813917924
- 320.082096683 21
- JQ3376.A91 B39 1998
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320.082095 GEN Gender and global politics in the Asia-Pacific / | 320.08209598 MCC Women as political actors in Indonesia's New Order / | 320.082096 WOM Women in African parliaments / | 320.082096683 BAY Wives of the leopard : gender, politics, and culture in the Kingdom of Dahomey / | 320.0820973 WOM Women and elective office : past, present, and future / | 320.0820981 MAC Gender politics in Brazil and Chile : the role of parties in national and local policymaking / | 320.0820994 CLA Women in Australian politics / |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-366) and index.
List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Author's Note -- Ch. 1. Along the Slave Coast -- Power, the Monarchy, and the Palace -- Learning about Dahomey -- Ch. 2. From Dahomey's Origins to 1740 -- The Slave Trade and the Founding of the Kingdom -- The Authority of Princesses -- The Conquest of Allada and Whydah -- Customs, Court, and the Palace in the Early 1700s -- Adonon and the Creation of the Office of Kpojito -- Ch. 3. The Age of Tegbesu and Hwanjile -- Succession -- The Kpojito Hwanjile -- Ministers, Traders, and the Monarchy -- The Impact of Oyo -- Ch. 4. The Struggle to Maintain the State -- The Reigns of Kpengla, Agonglo, and Adandozan -- The Military in the Late Eighteenth Century -- The Palace in the Late Eighteenth Century -- Successions and Political Instability -- Ch. 5. The Implications of Cultural and Commercial Change -- Gezo's Coup d'Etat -- The Kpojito Agontime -- Innovations of the Age of Gezo -- Ch. 6. The Decline of Dahomey -- The New Militarism -- Surveillance and the Palace -- Religion and Royal Control -- Succession in the Time of Glele and Behanzin -- Ch. 7. War, Disintegration, and the Failure of the Ancestors -- The Rise of Behanzin -- European Imperialism -- The War with the French -- Agoliagbo and the Aftermath of the French Conquest -- Ch. 8. Reprise -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index.
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