The Proto-Afropolitan Bildungsroman: Yoruba Women, Resistance, and the Nation in Simi Bedford's Yoruba Girl Dancing
In: The Global South, Band 10, Heft 1, S. 130
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In: The Global South, Band 10, Heft 1, S. 130
In: Substance use & misuse: an international interdisciplinary forum, Band 37, Heft 5-7, S. 579-597
ISSN: 1532-2491
In: The international journal of social psychiatry, Band 36, Heft 2, S. 93-98
ISSN: 1741-2854
A randomly selected clinic population of 400 pregnant women in Ile-Ife, Nigeria, were interviewed for complaints of psychological disorders during the last trimester of pregnancy and the post-partum period. The study shows a considerable degree of psychological disturbances during pregnancy which later decreased significantly dur ing the post-partum. While the complaints of worrying, guilt-feeling, nausea and vomiting and "heat in-the-head", were significantly more common in younger women, insomnia and anorexia were more common in older women. The incidence of psychological complaints among the women decreased with increasing parity. There was no significant difference in the incidence between women with monogamous and polygamous marriages.
In: Africa development: a quarterly journal of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa = Afrique et développement, Band 34, Heft 2, S. 47-57
ISSN: 0850-3907
In: Man: the journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Band 27, Heft 4, S. 895
In: Asian women, Band 37, Heft 3, S. 95-120
ISSN: 2586-5714
In: Journal of biosocial science: JBS, Band 18, Heft 1, S. 63-74
ISSN: 1469-7599
SummaryData were analysed from the 1973 surveys of the Nigerian segment of the Changing African Family (CAFN) Project which covered Yoruba women and men in Ibadan and the western state of Nigeria. The Yoruba women in monogamous unions and those in polygynous unions show slightly varying levels of fertility, measured as mean number of children ever born. Most of this variation can be attributed to other variables; type of union of the women does not significantly affect their fertility level.
In: Dialectical anthropology: an independent international journal in the critical tradition committed to the transformation of our society and the humane union of theory and practice, Band 21, Heft 1
ISSN: 1573-0786
In: Africa development: quarterly journal of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa = Afrique et développement : revue trimestrielle du Conseil pour le Développement de la Recherche en Sciences Sociales en Afrique, Band 34, Heft 2
ISSN: 2521-9863
Indigenous festivals, which rely significantly on music and dance, often constitute the village public sphere and the social arena within which the structures of power are performed and negotiated in tradi- tional African communities. This article discusses two unique musical traditions which feature prominently at annual traditional festivals in Emure-Ekiti, a Yoruba town in Western Nigeria. The musical traditions are orin olori (songs of the king's wives) and a related ensemble, orin airegbe, a musical tradition associated with female chiefs. Exploring an ethnomusicological approach, this article argues that the complemen- tary relationship between these two all-female musical traditions and the scope of their performance practices draw attention to the ways in which public performance sp aks to the status and agency of women in traditional Yoruba societies.
In: Journal of biosocial science: JBS, Band 17, Heft 4, S. 461-469
ISSN: 1469-7599
SummaryThis study employs multiple classification and regression techniques to determine the influence of marital, sociodemographic and selected intermediate variables on duration of breast-feeding and post-partum sexual abstinence among a sample of 300 Yoruba women of western Nigeria. Only education and place of residence appeared to be significantly related to the post-partum variables. Breast-feeding was shown to exert a significant positive effect on abstinence. The effect of contraception on the post-partum variables appeared to be a function of socioeconomic status.Reductions in the duration of the post-partum variables due to relative affluence can result in increases in fertility. Planners may do well to encourage women to go back to the use of these traditional child spacing practices in the absence of large scale and effective use of contraceptives.
In: Journal of social sciences: interdisciplinary reflection of contemporary society, Band 26, Heft 1, S. 57-65
ISSN: 2456-6756
In: Population and development review, Band 8, Heft 4, S. 859
ISSN: 1728-4457
In: Signs: journal of women in culture and society, Band 7, Heft 2, S. 299-313
ISSN: 1545-6943
In: Media Watch, Band 9, Heft 3, S. 291-301
Sexual harassment is a recurrent issue in any modern society. The increasing
cases of sexual harassment against women have become a menace in Nigeria.
This study sought to determine the potential place of Yoruba as a form of localized
communication in promoting psychological support on issues of sexual harassment
against women. The study employed development media theory and considered
Hebron FM as an example. Survey method was employed for the study and
instrument of data collection was questionnaire. A sample size of 150 respondents
was selected for the study. The results showed that many of the respondents
believed that the use of Yoruba in broadcasting, aids socio-cultural development
in Ota in Nigeria. Also, the study indicated that 87 per cent of the respondents say
use of Yoruba promotes psychological support on sexual harassment issues against
women.
In: Journal of women & aging: the multidisciplinary quarterly of psychosocial practice, theory, and research, Band 32, Heft 5, S. 491-516
ISSN: 1540-7322