This book explores the images of women in African
oral literature. For girl children in particular, the
images of women are seen as performing the role of
training the girl child into patriarchal society's
ideal woman-described in this book as "the virtuous
woman." This is
the kind of woman who is not aggressive but coy; not
boisterous but
quiet;not assertive but compromising, therefore
easily contained
within the male armpit. Using Abakhayo oral poetry as
its case
study, this work lays bare society's view of women
and girl children.
In particular, the work serves as an eye-opener to
the patriarchal
society's expectations of women and the attempt to
nurture them
towards the very expectations. After reading through
this book one
learns that women in a patriarchal African setup are
as a matter of
speaking, stateless. The book is recommended for
scholars,
students and researchers in Oral Literature,
Sociology, Gender
Studies and Anthropology at universities and other
tertiary
institutions.
oral literature. For girl children in particular, the
images of women are seen as performing the role of
training the girl child into patriarchal society's
ideal woman-described in this book as "the virtuous
woman." This is
the kind of woman who is not aggressive but coy; not
boisterous but
quiet;not assertive but compromising, therefore
easily contained
within the male armpit. Using Abakhayo oral poetry as
its case
study, this work lays bare society's view of women
and girl children.
In particular, the work serves as an eye-opener to
the patriarchal
society's expectations of women and the attempt to
nurture them
towards the very expectations. After reading through
this book one
learns that women in a patriarchal African setup are
as a matter of
speaking, stateless. The book is recommended for
scholars,
students and researchers in Oral Literature,
Sociology, Gender
Studies and Anthropology at universities and other
tertiary
institutions.