The voices of women in Africa. Love, marriage, slavery, apartheid
The paper documents women’s self expression from Africa, from Limba stories and Somali love poetry to self-told tales of women under slavery and apartheid or of young girls reluctantly but submissively going into marriage, together with the images of deceit and infidelity often attributed to women i...
Main Author: | Ruth Finnegan |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Firenze University Press
2015-03-01
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Series: | Storia delle Donne |
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Online Access: | https://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/sdd/article/view/2511 |
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