Emergent masculinities : gendered power and social change in the Biafran Atlantic age / Ndubueze L. Mbah.

Format:

Book

Thesis/Dissertation

Author/Creator:

Mbah, Ndubueze L., 1985- author.

Series:

New African histories series.

New African histories

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex role--Nigeria, Eastern--History.

Sex role.

Slave trade--Social aspects--Nigeria, Eastern.

Slave trade.

Slave trade--Political aspects--Nigeria, Eastern.

Masculinity--Social aspects--Nigeria, Eastern.

Masculinity.

Igbo (African people)--Africa, Eastern--Social life and customs.

Igbo (African people).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 309 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2019.

Summary:

"In Emergent Masculinities, Ndubueze L. Mbah argues that the Bight of Biafra region's Atlanticization-or the interaction between regional processes and Atlantic forces such as the slave trade, colonialism, and Christianization-between 1750 and 1920 transformed gender into the primary mode of social differentiation in the region. He incorporates over 250 oral narratives of men and women across a range of social roles and professions with material culture practices, performance traditions, slave ship data, colonial records, and more to reveal how Africans channeled the socioeconomic forces of the Atlantic world through their local ideologies and practices. The gendered struggles over the means of social reproduction conditioned the Bight of Biafra region's participation in Atlantic systems of production and exchange, and defined the demography of the region's forced diaspora. By looking at male and female constructions of masculinity and sexuality as major indexes of social change, Emergent Masculinities transforms our understanding of the role of gender in precolonial Africa and fills a major gap in our knowledge of a broader set of theoretical and comparative issues linked to the slave trade and the African diaspora"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

List of Illustrations

Preface and Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1 Gendered Kinship, ca. 1480-1850: Political and Economic Backgrounds of a Slaving Society

Chapter 2 Military Slaving, ca. 1650-1890: The Making of Warrior Masculinities

Chapter 3 Gendered Slavery in the Bight of Biafra, ca. 1750-1890: A Transatlantic Perspective

Chapter 4 Gendered Emancipation, ca. 1860-1940: New Ogaranya Masculinities

Chapter 5 Revolutionary Masculinities, ca. 1850-1940: Female Dissident Sexualities

Conclusion

Appendix: Lineage Charts

Glossary

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-304) and index.

Bibliogr. p. 263-304. Index.

Texte remanie de: Dissertation--[East Lansing (Mich.)]--[Michigan State University], [2013].

ISBN:

9780821446850

0821446851

OCLC:

1298384136