Unmasking Women’s Rivalry in Cameroonian Folktales

This paper examines gender role messages conveyed in Cameroonian folktales. Folktales promote women's rivalry and mask men's culpability in oppressing women by setting the stage for their jealousy, enmity and competition. Attention is drawn away from men's wrong doing toward women by...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Susan Weinger, Lotsmart Fonjong, Charles Fonchingong, Robert Allen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nordic Africa Research Network 2018-08-01
Series:Nordic Journal of African Studies
Online Access:https://www.njas.fi/njas/article/view/8