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