Madamismo and Beyond: The Construction of Eritrean Women
Ninetenth Century Contexts (2000)
- ISSN: 08905495
- ISBN: 0312236492
- DOI: 10.1080/08905490008583509
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Abstract
Ruth draws an intersting parallel between the image of the voluptous and senxual-feminine colonial woman and the woman-warrior of the civil war period arguing that after indepedence women have been betrayed and that there has been a return to the colonial inequal relationship. About Madamato Ruth argues that Eritrean women were organized in three tiers: - high officers' madamas - lower officers' madamas - privates' prostitutes; - indigenous women; Three stages of the development of Madamato: precolonial subordination; colonial subordination; outlawing of madamismo; legalized-forced prostitution; keywords imbestiamento
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