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862621
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Diop, Ismahan Soukeyna
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African mythology, femininity, and maternity /\ Ismahan Soukeyna Diop.
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| Publication Statement
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Cham :: Palgrave Macmillan,, [2019]
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| Series Statement
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Pan-African psychologies,
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1 online resource (172 pages)
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| ISBN
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3030246620
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: 9783030246624
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3030246612
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9783030246617
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Intro; Series Editors' Foreword; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Contents; 1 Introduction; 2 Feminine Figures in African Mythology; 2.1 Matriarchy in the African Mythology; 2.1.1 Myths of the Genesis; 2.1.2 Phallus and Femininity; 2.1.3 The Paradox of Eve the Seductive Woman to Mary the Saint; 2.1.4 The Myth of Lilith; 2.2 The Devouring Mother/Sorcerer/Goddess; 2.2.1 The Denial of Symbolic Permutation; 2.2.2 The Exchange Process Guarantor of Peace; 2.2.3 Caraweelo a Somali Legend of an All Powerful Tyrannic Mother; 2.2.4 Bouti the Ogress of the Past; 2.2.5 Mami Wata; 2.2.6 Abraha Pokou
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2.3 The Old Woman2.3.1 The Good Old Woman; 2.3.2 The Evil Old Woman; 2.4 The Good Mother; 2.5 Summary; References; 3 Symbolic References to the Feminine Body; 3.1 The Matrix and the Placenta; 3.1.1 The Matrix; 3.1.2 The Placenta; 3.2 The Breastmilk; 3.3 The Treatments Given to the Feminine Body; 3.3.1 The Mothering Techniques; 3.3.2 The Rites of Passage; 3.4 The Calabash; 3.5 Summary; References; 4 Correspondences with Tales from Europe and Middle East; 4.1 Pregnancy and Sleep in European and Middle Eastern Tales; 4.2 Transgression of the Laws of Nature: Giving Life to a Child Without a Woman
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4.2.1 A Handmade Child4.2.2 A Devious Child as a Punishment for Audacious Parents; 4.2.3 The Quest for Redemption and the Intervention of Mother Nature; 4.3 Punishments for Women's Greed; 4.3.1 The Temptation; 4.3.2 The Envy Toward Others' Goods; 4.3.3 The Old Lady/Ogress Willing to Keep a Girl as Her Daughter; 4.3.4 The Representation of Death in Fairytales; 4.4 Women's Jealousy in Tales; 4.4.1 The Jealousy of Older Women Toward Young Women; 4.4.2 Polygamy and Rivalry; 4.5 Summary; References; 5 Impact on Women's Social Status; 5.1 The Mother Who Has Worked; 5.2 Marriage and Divorce
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5.2.1 Polygamy5.2.2 The Divorce; 5.3 Women Status in Religious and Civil Laws; 5.3.1 Women's Rights in Civil Law; 5.3.2 Women's Rights in Islamic Law; 5.3.3 Women's Rights in Judaism and Christianity; References; 6 Women in the Contemporary African Literature; 6.1 The Waves of African Feminism; 6.1.1 Marriage; 6.1.2 Social Representation of Women; 6.1.3 Money and Power; 6.2 What Vision of Women Do African Male Writers Show?; 6.3 Mother-Daughter Relationship in the Feminine African Literature; 6.3.1 M'ma Asana and Hawa; 6.3.2 Bertha and Megrita; 6.3.3 Ramatoulaye and Daba; References
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7 Clinical Representation of Femininity and Maternity in the Mother-Daughter Relationship: Analysis of Clinical Cases7.1 The Story of Fatima; 7.1.1 Early Childhood and Marriage; 7.1.2 Being a Wife and a Woman; 7.1.3 Confronting Her Mother; 7.2 The Story of Alia; 7.2.1 Childhood and Adolescence; 7.2.2 Sexuality and Femininity as an Exit Option; 7.2.3 Being a Woman for Herself; 7.3 Interpreting Clinical Cases at the Light of African Mythology and Fairytales; 7.3.1 Transference and Countertransference Mechanisms; 7.3.2 Myths, Tales and Therapy; Reference; 8 Conclusion; References; Index
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| Abstract
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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 aspects of female and mother-daughter relationships. Diop analyzes the symbolic aspects of maternity and femininity, describing the social meaning of the matrix, breasts, and breastfeeding. A retrospective of female characters in African literature brings an interesting approach to explore the figures of femininity and maternity in society. After an extensive analysis of African mythology and tales, the author proposes a way to integrate them in the clinical psychotherapy as a projective material. The analysis of clinical cases offers an example of how this material can be used in therapy with women from African descent.
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Femininity-- Senegal.
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Motherhood-- Senegal.
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Mythology, African.
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Femininity.
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Motherhood.
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Mythology, African.
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Senegal.
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| Dewey Classification
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299.696
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| LC Classification
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BL2465
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