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Book chapter | Leiden University catalogue | WorldCat |
Title: | Islam, sex roles, and modernization in Bobo-Dioulasso |
Author: | Quimby, L.G. |
Book title: | The new religions of Africa |
Year: | 1979 |
Pages: | 203-218 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Burkina Faso |
Subjects: | Islam syncretism gender relations Dyula gender |
Abstract: | Near the beginning of the 18th century, the Dyula had come to Bobo-Dioulasso (Upper-Volta) where they had overthrown the rulers and established their own dynasty. Dyula males dominated the society; they both denigrated and feared the domestic, nurturant sphere of life to which they relegated their women. When a period of rapid social change in the 20th century eroded many of the political and economic bases of male dominance, men turned to religious ideology and ritual to defend their dominant position. |