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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Matriarchy"”.
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Matriarchy, the colonial situation, and the women's war of 1929 in southeastern Nigeria
… away of inherent rights guaranteed them by matriarchy following the imposition of patriarchy upon the society, this study provides a new explanation of the women’s involvement and lack of male participation in the war. Under traditional matriarchal umbrellas, through their networks and …
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The tradition behind the tradition: Matriarchy and the contemporary women writers of Cameroon
In 1969, Therese Kuoh-Moukoury emerged as the first female novelist of her native Cameroon with the publication of Rencontres essentielles. In terms of feminist literary expression, she was preceded in the Francophone world only by Marie-Claire Matip who wrote the novella, Ngonda, in 1958. Matip …
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Spilling everything that threatens: a collection of poems that explores the role of the black matriarch in the nuclear family in South Africa
… the nuclear family in contemporary South Africa. Matriarchy, defined by Karen McGee “as the social system in which the mother is the head of the family or a family, community or society governed by women,” has existed for centuries and has evolved in a unique historical form in South Africa (1). …
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Wrestling with Father Shakespeare: Contemporary Revisions of <em>King Lear</em> and <em>The Tempest</em>.
… Day, the text itself becomes an orphan as the matriarchy flourishes.</p> <p>Although there appear to be few similarities between these works, the familial dynamic follows a similar formula: the children disobey, but only those who eventually accept the principles of the patriarchy are able to …
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She must be quiet: a historical case study of how women created spiritualist education at the Chesterfield Spiritualist college
… College, Camp Chesterfield is not the utopian matriarchy some believe it to be. Instead, there were some instances of women participating in, what some have concluded as a patriarchal power struggle. Regardless, women have kept Camp Chesterfield and the Chesterfield Spiritualist College afloat. …
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Mutterrecht to Mauerfall: Cassandra and Penthesilea in 1980s east German art
… concept of das Mutterrecht, a primitive form of matriarchy which informed foundational socialist ideology on women. This ideology bears interesting connections with the myths in which Cassandra and Penthesilea originate. In addition to advancing the understanding of gender representation in the …
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Slaying Hybridity: The “Uncreated” Monstrous Doubles in the The Saga of the Volsungs, Nibelungenlied, and Kudrun
… the patriarchy and the chaos and disorder of the matriarchy—the threat temporarily subsides only to reemerge in a new form due to the intimate relationship between the hero and the monster. The monster becomes a part of the hero’s new identity, a part that cannot be separated from the hero. And it …
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Julia Hills Johnson, 1783-1853 MY SOUL REJOICED
<p>Julia Hills Johnson, the 48-year-old wife of Ezekiel Johnson and mother of sixteen children, found spiritual fulfillment in the doctrines of a new religion called Mormonism. Her baptism in 1831 was a simple act that ultimately led her halfway across the American continent, and strained her …