African Mythology, Femininity, and Maternity

• Main Author: Diop, Ismahan Soukeyna (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Pan-African Psychologies,
• Subjects: Cross-cultural psychology.; Clinical psychology.; Sociology.; Ethnology-Africa.; Philosophy, Asian.; Cross Cultural Psychology.; Clinical Psychology.; Gender Studies.; African Culture.; Non-Western Philosophy.

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 relationsh...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: Feminine Figures in African Mythology
• Chapter 3: Symbolic References to the feminine body
• Chapter 4: Correspondences with tales from Europe and Middle East
• Chapter 5: Impact on women's social status
• Chapter 6: Women in the contemporaryAfrican literature
• Chapter 7: Clinical representation of femininity and maternity in the mother-daughter relationship: Analysis of clinical cases
• Chapter 8: Conclusion.