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Women's Voices in A Man's World: Women and the Pastoral Tradition in Northern Somali Orature, c. 1899-1980 Book

Women's Voices in A Man's World: Women and the Pastoral Tradition in Northern Somali Orature, c. 1899-1980
Women's Voices in A Man's World: Women and the Pastoral Tradition in Northern Somali Orature, c. 1899-1980, Two questions dominate this ethnographic, literary, and historical study of Somali society through its orature. First, in what ways do Somali oral texts provide information about women and gender relations in Somali society? Second, how do these oral text, Women's Voices in A Man's World: Women and the Pastoral Tradition in Northern Somali Orature, c. 1899-1980 has a rating of 3 stars
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  • Women's Voices in A Man's World: Women and the Pastoral Tradition in Northern Somali Orature, c. 1899-1980
  • Written by author Lidwien Kapteijns
  • Published by Heinemann, September 1999
  • Two questions dominate this ethnographic, literary, and historical study of Somali society through its orature. First, in what ways do Somali oral texts provide information about women and gender relations in Somali society? Second, how do these oral text
  • Two questions dominate this ethnographic, literary, and historical study of Somali society through its orature. First, in what ways do Somali oral texts provide information about women and gender relations in Somali society? Second, how do these oral text
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Preface
Transcription of Somali
Introduction1
Pt. 1Women and Gender Expectations in Northern Somali Orature of the "Era of Fire and Embers" (1899-1944)9
1Introduction to Somali Society and History in the Colonial Period13
2Girls in Somali Stories, Sayings, and Songs23
3Married Women's Obedience and Sexual Fidelity37
4Married Women's Work and Competence51
Notes on Part One79
Pt. 2Women and Gender Expectations in Somali Love Songs of the Period c. 1944-198099
5The Birth of a New Genre, the Popular Song103
6Being in Love and Suffering Its Symptoms111
7Reimagining Courtship: Romantic Love Versus the Discipline of Family and Kin Group121
8Marriage and Its Critics: "Tradition" as a Literary Weapon141
Conclusion151
Notes to Part Two159
Appendix of Somali Love Songs Quoted in Part Two165
List of Love Songs by Title and/or First Line167
List of Singers and Authors171
Texts of Songs and Song Fragments173
Bibliography209
Index223


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