Elite Women in the Kingdom of Kongo
Historical Perspectives on Women's Political Power
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8978552 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John K Thornton (0000-0001-8760-2634, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 437-460 |
| Publication date | 2006-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of African History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8537 • E-ISSN: 1469-5138 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0021853706001812 |
| OpenAlex | W2115526410 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 18 |
Discussions of women’s power in Africa often focus on how much the role of senior women is symbolic and how much is real. Studying the Kingdom of Kongo reveals that in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries women initially exercised power indirectly through influence on male relatives. However, following the beginning of the civil war after 1665 women began to exercise more open and overt power, taking effective control of some sections of the country and working less through male relatives. However, elite Kongo women never took formal control of the state as they did in Ndongo and Matamba
Archaeology · Economic history · Elite · Genealogy · Kingdom · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · State (computer science · African history and culture studies · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Gender Studies · History · Law
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Soyo and Kongo
Kongo Cosmopolitans in the Nineteenth Century
The Eastern Border of the Kongo Kingdom
A Central African Kingdom
The Origins of Kongo
‘To Make Book’
Introduction
From America to Africa
From Image to Grave and Back
The Making of Kongo Identity in the American Diaspora
Obra de Oliveira de Cadornega na Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal
A History of West Central Africa to 1850
The Kongo Kingdom
Women along the Catumbela River, 1797
The Kingdom of Kongo and the Thirty Years’ War
Slavery and Its Transformation in the Kingdom of Kongo
In Her Own Image
| Unique citing works | 18 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,06 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2022 (14) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 18 |