African Mythology, Femininity, and Maternity
This book explores feminine archetypes and mythological figures in African and European traditions with an underlying goal of describing the foundations of social status for women. The author provides a rich corpus of mythology and tales to illustrate asp
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African Mythology, Femininity, and Maternity
Ismahan Soukeyna Diop
Pan-African Psychologies Series Editors Chalmer E. F. Thompson Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis Indianapolis, IN, USA Guerda Nicolas University of Miami Coral Gables, FL, USA
African people and their descendants from various regions of the Diaspora have endured a history of struggle that has been replete in violence and structural oppression. Offering a psychology of Black people entails an understanding of these pervasive, sustaining structures and their intersection with culture, gender socialization, and the panoply of “isms” that shape people and contexts. What is needed as part of a knowledge base on Black psychology is an elaboration of the common themes that cut across global contexts and the conditions that characterize specific regions, all of which have bearing on individual, interpersonal, and societal functioning. More than ever, there is an urgent need for psychological scholarship that unapologetically centers race and the ever-changing role of context in understanding the history, struggles, and strengths of Black lives and communities around the globe. The series seeks to make a novel contribution to the broader area of critical & radical psychology by drawing on marginalized voices and perspectives and by engaging with the praxis agenda of improving the lives of African/Black peoples. It both seeks to critique oppression (more particularly, of the racialized, neo-colonial world) and provide prospective strategies (practices of liberation, of peace) to respond to such forms of oppression. More information about this series at http://www.palgrave.com/gp/series/15830
Ismahan Soukeyna Diop
African Mythology, Femininity, and Maternity
Ismahan Soukeyna Diop Faculté de Lettres et Sciences Humaines Cheikh Anta Diop University Dakar, Senegal
ISSN 2523-8264 ISSN 2523-8272 (electronic) Pan-African Psychologies ISBN 978-3-030-24661-7 ISBN 978-3-030-24662-4 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24662-4 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate a
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