Colonial warfare gave men new dominance over previously matriarchal societies
Evidence
Likewise, matriarchy was viewed as a feasible form of socio-political power and advancement in the founding of East-Central Africa from 100 BCE to 1900 CE, a dynamic later tilted by colonialism when men rose up to war against the settlers, thus giving them power and dominance over women on that basis. — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 982
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
- XREF: Colonial militarization as a gendered power shift, echoing patterns in the book’s earlier chapters.
Related
- Colonial anti-settler warfare shifted East-Central African gender power to men. (similarity 0.94)
- Colonialism functioned as an all-male training ground for masculinity (similarity 0.81)
- Male supremacy functions as a political strategy maintaining gendered power relations (similarity 0.80)
- Colonial capitalism deliberately eroded African women’s value to enable colonial settlement (similarity 0.79)
- Male supremacy functions as a political strategy of subordination. (similarity 0.79)
- Colonial racial ideology shaped gendered relations under colonial capitalism. (similarity 0.79)
- Colonial rhetoric weaponized other men’s sexism to justify cultural erasure (similarity 0.78)