Migration and the Feminization of Power
In Nigeria and many other African countries, husbands are regarded as breadwinners and 'lords of the household'. When women get married, they are described as 'going to their husband's house' and in cases of separation or unresolved crisis within the union, the wives are &#...
Saved in:
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
UJ Press
2021-12-01
|
| Series: | African Journal of Gender and Religion (AJGR) |
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | https://journals.uj.ac.za/index.php/ajgr/article/view/1016 |
| Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
| _version_ | 1841554908257452032 |
|---|---|
| author | Elizabeth Olayiwola |
| author_facet | Elizabeth Olayiwola |
| author_sort | Elizabeth Olayiwola |
| collection | DOAJ |
| description |
In Nigeria and many other African countries, husbands are regarded as breadwinners and 'lords of the household'. When women get married, they are described as 'going to their husband's house' and in cases of separation or unresolved crisis within the union, the wives are 'sent out' of the household. These ways of framing gendered relationships in marriage provide the basis for popular stories in many conventional Nollywood videos. However, as Mount Zion Film Productions, an evangelical video production company based in Nigeria and led by filmmaker Mike Bamiloye, has crossed national borders, it has also reflected on the changing gender roles and identities of migrant women. In each transnational Mount Zion video, the filmmaker struggles to square cultural and biblical constructions of gender roles. In a diasporic milieu, Bamiloye's cultural-religious imagination of womanhood is contested. Drawing on three transnational Mount Zion films (The Return, Prodigal Ones, and The Finest Wine), this article uses content analysis methods to study the selected films and to explore the conflict and dynamism generated by the emergence of newly profiled migrant women.
|
| format | Article |
| id | doaj-art-fb2fef568fef41e896e5e28991e21dcf |
| institution | Kabale University |
| issn | 2707-2991 |
| language | English |
| publishDate | 2021-12-01 |
| publisher | UJ Press |
| record_format | Article |
| series | African Journal of Gender and Religion (AJGR) |
| spelling | doaj-art-fb2fef568fef41e896e5e28991e21dcf2025-01-08T09:01:13ZengUJ PressAfrican Journal of Gender and Religion (AJGR)2707-29912021-12-0126110.14426/ajgr.v26i1.1016Migration and the Feminization of PowerElizabeth Olayiwola0Kwara State University In Nigeria and many other African countries, husbands are regarded as breadwinners and 'lords of the household'. When women get married, they are described as 'going to their husband's house' and in cases of separation or unresolved crisis within the union, the wives are 'sent out' of the household. These ways of framing gendered relationships in marriage provide the basis for popular stories in many conventional Nollywood videos. However, as Mount Zion Film Productions, an evangelical video production company based in Nigeria and led by filmmaker Mike Bamiloye, has crossed national borders, it has also reflected on the changing gender roles and identities of migrant women. In each transnational Mount Zion video, the filmmaker struggles to square cultural and biblical constructions of gender roles. In a diasporic milieu, Bamiloye's cultural-religious imagination of womanhood is contested. Drawing on three transnational Mount Zion films (The Return, Prodigal Ones, and The Finest Wine), this article uses content analysis methods to study the selected films and to explore the conflict and dynamism generated by the emergence of newly profiled migrant women. https://journals.uj.ac.za/index.php/ajgr/article/view/1016Migrantwomenfeminization of powertransnationalevangelicalNollywood |
| spellingShingle | Elizabeth Olayiwola Migration and the Feminization of Power African Journal of Gender and Religion (AJGR) Migrant women feminization of power transnational evangelical Nollywood |
| title | Migration and the Feminization of Power |
| title_full | Migration and the Feminization of Power |
| title_fullStr | Migration and the Feminization of Power |
| title_full_unstemmed | Migration and the Feminization of Power |
| title_short | Migration and the Feminization of Power |
| title_sort | migration and the feminization of power |
| topic | Migrant women feminization of power transnational evangelical Nollywood |
| url | https://journals.uj.ac.za/index.php/ajgr/article/view/1016 |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT elizabetholayiwola migrationandthefeminizationofpower |