{"id":3472,"date":"2022-03-07T17:35:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-07T17:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonnakatto.com\/blog\/?p=3472"},"modified":"2022-03-09T17:42:03","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T17:42:03","slug":"the-rainha-is-the-boss-on-masculinities-time-and-precolonial-women-of-authority-in-northern-mozambique-gender-history-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jonnakatto.com\/genhis-africa\/the-rainha-is-the-boss-on-masculinities-time-and-precolonial-women-of-authority-in-northern-mozambique-gender-history-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018\u201cThe <i>rainha<\/i> is the boss!\u201d: On Masculinities, Time and Precolonial Women of Authority in Northern Mozambique\u2019, <i>Gender &#038; History<\/i> (2022)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote alignright is-style-default\"><blockquote><p>This article focuses on the oral historical narratives about precolonial women of authority (or <em>rainhas<\/em> in Portuguese) to explore the deeper history of gendered power in northern Mozambique.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>History-telling is a gendered practice, and nowadays male elders are usually the ones most knowledgeable in these narratives. Moreover, telling these tales &#8211; which in interview situations involves personal interpretations and comments &#8211; the men also story gendered temporal worlds. This article looks more closely at two seemingly clashing (and incompatible) storylines that emerge in the oral history material. One tells of women&#8217;s spiritual-political power in the Yaawo chieftaincies in precolonial times, while the other tells a narrative of masculinised power and woman&#8217;s subordinate position in relation to male leaders. The article focus&#8217;s especially on how the male narrators talk about masculinity and how different models of masculinity in turn shape the historical narratives they tell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read full article for free<\/strong> <strong>(pre-publication view): <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/share\/author\/JGDPBTIBGSGJWXQSYDKB?target=10.1111\/1468-0424.12590\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/share\/author\/JGDPBTIBGSGJWXQSYDKB?target=10.1111\/1468-0424.12590<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article focuses on the oral historical narratives about precolonial women of authority (or rainhas in Portuguese) to explore the deeper history of gendered power in northern Mozambique. 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