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Yoruba Women, Work, and Social Change

Clearly written and cogently argued, this book is the first comprehensive survey of Yoruba women's lives from the precolonial period until independence. The period 1820-1960 was one of fundamental political, economic, and social change, during which the Yoruba of southwestern Nigeria selectively adopted foreign ideas, customs, and technologies and adapted them to their own needs. Focusing on marriage, motherhood, economic and political activities, and religious roles, McIntosh (emer., Univ. of Colorado, Boulder) shows how Yoruba women resisted detrimental practices and took advantage of new op…