Wives of the Leopard: Gender, Politics, and Culture in the Kingdom of Dahomey by Edna G. Bay

Wives of the Leopard: Gender, Politics, and Culture in the Kingdom of Dahomey

Edna G. Bay

392 pages first pub 1998 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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"Wives of the Leopard" explores power and culture in a pre-colonial West African state whose army of women and practice of human sacrifice earned it notoriety in the racist imagination of late nineteenth-century Europe and America. Tracing two hun...

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