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• catalog abstract "Women's labor - producing both crops and children - has long been the linchpin of male status and power throughout Africa. This book lucidly interprets the intricate relations of gender to state-building in Africa by looking historically at control over production and reproduction, from the nineteenth century to the present. Miriam Goheen examines struggles over power within the Nso' chiefdom in the highlands of Western Cameroon, between the chiefdom and the state, and between men and women, as the women increasingly reject traditional marriages. Based on a decade of fieldwork, this work tracks the negotiations between chiefs and subchiefs and women and men over ritual power, economic power, and administrative power. Though Nso' men obviously dominate their society at both the local level and nationally, women have had power of their own by virtue of their status as women. Men may own the land, for example, but women control the crops through their labor. Goheen explains clearly the place of gender in very complex historical processes, such as land tenure systems, title societies, chieftancy, marriage systems, changing ideas of symbolic capital, and internal and external politics. In examining women's resistance to traditional patterns of marriage, Goheen raises the question of whether such actions truly change the balance of power between the sexes, or whether resistance to marriage is instead fostering the formation of a new elite class, since it is only the better-educated women of wealthier families who can change the dynamic of power and labor within the household.".
• catalog contributor b9127246.
• catalog coverage "Cameroon Politics and government 1982-".
• catalog coverage "Cameroon Social conditions 1960-".
• catalog created "c1996.".
• catalog date "1996".
• catalog date "c1996.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1996.".
• catalog description "1. Introduction -- 2. Nso' Geography and Social Setting: A Background -- 3. The Forging of Hegemony -- 4. Female Farmers, Male Warriors: Gendering Production and Reproduction -- 5. Sum and Nsay: Access to Resources and the Sex/Gender Hierarchy -- 6. The Fon's New Leopards, or Sorcerers of the Night? The Articulation of Male Hegemony -- 7. Counterhegemony and Dissent on the Periphery: Chiefs, Subchiefs, and the Modern State -- 8. Conclusion: Gender, Protest, and New Forms of Stratification.".
• catalog description "Based on a decade of fieldwork, this work tracks the negotiations between chiefs and subchiefs and women and men over ritual power, economic power, and administrative power. Though Nso' men obviously dominate their society at both the local level and nationally, women have had power of their own by virtue of their status as women. Men may own the land, for example, but women control the crops through their labor. Goheen explains clearly the place of gender in very complex historical processes, such as land tenure systems, title societies, chieftancy, marriage systems, changing ideas of symbolic capital, and internal and external politics.".
• catalog description "In examining women's resistance to traditional patterns of marriage, Goheen raises the question of whether such actions truly change the balance of power between the sexes, or whether resistance to marriage is instead fostering the formation of a new elite class, since it is only the better-educated women of wealthier families who can change the dynamic of power and labor within the household.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 234-244) and index.".
• catalog description "Women's labor - producing both crops and children - has long been the linchpin of male status and power throughout Africa. This book lucidly interprets the intricate relations of gender to state-building in Africa by looking historically at control over production and reproduction, from the nineteenth century to the present. Miriam Goheen examines struggles over power within the Nso' chiefdom in the highlands of Western Cameroon, between the chiefdom and the state, and between men and women, as the women increasingly reject traditional marriages.".
• catalog extent "xx, 252 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "Men own the fields, women own the crops.".
• catalog identifier "0299146707 (alk. paper)".
• catalog identifier "029914674X (pbk. : alk. paper)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Men own the fields, women own the crops.".
• catalog issued "1996".
• catalog issued "c1996.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Madison : University of Wisconsin Press,".
• catalog relation "Men own the fields, women own the crops.".
• catalog spatial "Cameroon Politics and government 1982-".
• catalog spatial "Cameroon Social conditions 1960-".
• catalog spatial "Cameroon.".
• catalog subject "305.3/096711 20".
• catalog subject "DT571.N74 G64 1995".
• catalog subject "DT571.N74 G64 1996".
• catalog subject "Nso (African people) Social conditions.".
• catalog subject "Sex role Cameroon.".
• catalog tableOfContents "1. Introduction -- 2. Nso' Geography and Social Setting: A Background -- 3. The Forging of Hegemony -- 4. Female Farmers, Male Warriors: Gendering Production and Reproduction -- 5. Sum and Nsay: Access to Resources and the Sex/Gender Hierarchy -- 6. The Fon's New Leopards, or Sorcerers of the Night? The Articulation of Male Hegemony -- 7. Counterhegemony and Dissent on the Periphery: Chiefs, Subchiefs, and the Modern State -- 8. Conclusion: Gender, Protest, and New Forms of Stratification.".
• catalog title "Men own the fields, women own the crops : gender and power in the Cameroon grassfields / Miriam Goheen.".
• catalog type "text".