Anatomy of Female Power

Notes

  1. 1 Judy Allen and Dyan Sheldon, eds., Picking on Men Again, London: Arrow Books, 1986, p.88.
  2. 2 Regina Joseph, "In Defence of Marriage", Sunday Punch (Lagos), May 22, 1983, p.7.
  3. 3 Harold Courlander, ed., A Treasury of African Folklore, New York: Crown Publishers, 1975, pp.362-363.
  4. 4 Judy Allen and Dyan Sheldon, op.cit., p.35.
  5. 5 Andrea Dworkin, Right-wing Women, London: The Women's Press, 1983, p.223.
  6. 6 Carol Hanisch, "Men's Liberation", in Redstockings, Feminist Revolution, New York: Random House, 1978, p.72.
  7. 7 Denyse Plummer, "Woman is Boss", on the cassette Who is the Boss?, Trinidad & Tobago: Multi Media Limited, 1988, CP 3889.
  8. 8 Interview by Rolake Omonubi, Sunday Tribune (Ibadan), January 22, 1984, p.11.
  9. 9 Esther Vilar, The Manipulated Man, London: Abelard-Schuman, 1972, p.10.
  10. 10 Ibid., p.39.
  11. 11 Sigmund Freud, Character and Culture, New York: Crowell-Collier, 1963, pp.37-38.
  12. 12 Jonathon Green, ed., Says Who?, Harlow, U.K.: Longman, 1988, p.598.
  13. 13 Robert Ardrey, African Genesis, London: Fontana, 1967, p.162.
  14. 14 Bunmi Fadase, "The 60th Birthday Party that Went with a Bang!", The Punch (Lagos), May 2, 1983, p.4.
  15. 15 William Ross Wallace, in Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, London, OUP, 1964, p.557.
  16. 16 Judy Allen and Dyan Sheldon, op.cit., p.82.
  17. 17 Bunmi Fadase, "Watch out Girls, The Men are Getting Liberated", The Punch (Lagos), August 8, 1983, p.4.
  18. 18 Chinweizu, ed., Voices from Twentieth-Century Africa, London: Faber and Faber, 1988, p.249.
  19. 19 Miriam Lichtheim, ed., Ancient Egyptian Literature, Vol.3, Berkeley: U. of California Press, 1980, p.178.
  20. 20 Bunmi Fadase, op.cit.
  21. 21 Judy Allen and Dyan Sheldon, op.cit., p.114.
  22. 22 Ibid.
  23. 23 Marvin Harris, Cows, Pigs, Wars and Witches, New York: Vintage, 1978, p.72.
  24. 24 Chieka Ifemesia, Traditional Humane Living Among the Igbo, Enugu: Fourth Dimension, (n.d.) p.57.
  25. 25 Helene Deutsch, The Psychology of Women, Vol. II, New York: Bantam, 1973, pp.329-330.
  26. 26 Karen Payne, ed., Between Ourselves, London: Picador, 1984, pp.360-364.
  27. 27 Ibid., p.365.
  28. 28 Ibid.
  29. 29 Ibid., p.25.
  30. 30 Bunmi Fadase, op.cit.
  31. 31 Willard Trask, ed., The Unwritten Song, Vol. II, New York: Macmillan, 1967, p.xxvi.
  32. 32 Ntozake Shange, For Colored Girls, New York: Macmillan, 1977, p.39.
  33. 33 Judy Allen and Dyan Sheldon, op.cit., p.18.
  34. 34 Jan Knappert, ed., An Anthology of Swahili Love Poetry, Berkeley: U. of California Press, 1972, p.87.
  35. 35 Ambrose Bierce, The Enlarged Devil's Dictionary, ed. by E.J. Hopkins, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1983, p.215.
  36. 36 A.K. Adams, ed., The Home Book of Humorous Quotations, New York: Dodd, Mead, 1969, p.210.
  37. 37 Quoted by Herb Caen, in The San Francisco Chronicle, August 20, 1980, p.35.
  38. 38 Barbra Streisand, "Woman in Love", in Barbra Streisand, A Collection of Greatest Hits... And More, CBS 465845 4.
  39. 39 "Moonlight Love Song", by the Ora of Bendel State, Nigeria, tr. by Oje Odihirin, in C.O.D. Ekwensi, ed., The Festac Anthology of New Nigerian Writings, Lagos: Federal Ministry of Information, 1977, p.46.
  40. 40 Jan Knappert, op.cit.
  41. 41 F.P.A.'s Book of Quotations, New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1952, p.864.
  42. 42 Judy Allen and Dyan Sheldon, op.cit., p.140.
  43. 43 Jorge Amado, Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands, tr. by Harriet de Onís, New York: Bantam, 1971, p.236.
  44. 44 From "The Lala-Song of the Village Girls", in Charlotte and Wolf Leslau, eds., African Poems and Love Songs, Mount Vernon, N.Y.: Peter Pauper Press, 1970, pp.20-22.
  45. 45 Judy Allen and Dyan Sheldon, op.cit., p.74.
  46. 46 Ibid., p.75.
  47. 47 From "Song of the Bridesmaids", in Charlotte and Wolf Leslau, op.cit., pp.6-7.
  48. 48 "The Groom Said 'No'", The Weekly Star (Enugu), March 15, 1981, p.9.
  49. 49 Joseph L. Henderson, "Ancient Myths and Modern Man", in C.G. Jung, ed., Man and His Symbols, New York: Dell, 1968, p.127.
  50. 50 Judy Allen and Dyan Sheldon, op.cit., p.88.
  51. 51 Fred Metcalf, ed., The Penguin Dictionary of Modern Humorous Quotations, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1986, p.162.
  52. 52 Livia, wife of Emperor Augustus Caesar of Rome.
  53. 53 Judy Allen and Dyan Sheldon, op.cit., p.117.
  54. 54 BBC World Service, September 23, 1982.
  55. 55 Anthony King, "Mrs Thatcher: Matching Up to Princely Standards", in The Daily Telegraph (London), October 6, 1988, p.12.
  56. 56 Gail Sheehy, "The Bendix Furor — Woman's Untold Story", The San Francisco Chronicle, October 13, 1980, p.6.
  57. 57 Mary Soames, Clementine Churchill, London: Cassell, 1979, jacket blurb.
  58. 58 Ibid., p.236.
  59. 59 Ibid., p.498.
  60. 60 Judy Allen and Dyan Sheldon, op.cit., p.45.
  61. 61 Isidore Okpewho, ed., The Heritage of African Poetry, London: Longman, 1985, p.162.
  62. 62 Karen Payne, op.cit., p.234.
  63. 63 Andrea Dworkin, op.cit., p.216.
  64. 64 Quoted in Chinweizu, The West and the Rest of Us, Lagos: Pero Press, 1987, p.242.
  65. 65 Karen Payne, op.cit., p.87.
  66. 66 Ibid., pp.87, 88.
  67. 67 Kowus Bisi-Williams, "Why Women Flirt", Vanguard (Lagos), March 17, 1989, p.12.
  68. 68 Gloria Ogunbadejo, "The Human Angle", Vanguard (Lagos), February 28, 1989, p.5.
  69. 69 Robert Ardrey, op.cit., p.138.
  70. 70 Judy Allen and Dyan Sheldon, op.cit., p.168.
  71. 71 Bunmi Fadase, "Talk about 'Battered-Men'", The Punch (Lagos), July 11, 1983, p.4.
  72. 72 Karen Payne, op.cit., p.3.
  73. 73 Ibid., p.109.
  74. 74 Ibid., p.239.
  75. 75 Quoted in South magazine (London), December 1984, p.19.
  76. 76 "The Cynic in Mrs. America", in "Jeremy Campbell's Washington Letter", The Standard (London) March 10, 1982, p.7.
  77. 77 Miriam Lichtheim, op.cit., p.195.
  78. 78 Judy Allen and Dyan Sheldon, op.cit., p.90.
  79. 79 Who Said What When?, London: Bloomsbury, 1988, p.271.
  80. 80 Judy Allen and Dyan Sheldon, op.cit., p.92.
  81. 81 Ibid., p.171.
  82. 82 Gbemi Egunjobi, "Why Do Men Fear Commitment?", Vanguard (Lagos), September 5, 1989, p.5.
  83. 83 Judy Allen and Dyan Sheldon, op.cit., p.86.
  84. 84 Ibid., p.89.
  85. 85 Gilgamesh, tr. by John Gardner and John Maier, New York: Knopf, 1984, pp.149, 152, 153.
  86. 86 Homer, The Odyssey, tr. by E.V. Rieu, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1970, p.92.
  87. 87 Ibid., p.164.
  88. 88 Ibid.
  89. 89 Bernard Soulie, Japanese Erotism, tr. by Evelyn Rossiter, Fribourg-Geneva, Productions Liber SA, 1981, p.68.
  90. 90 Chinweizu, ed., Voices from Twentieth-Century Africa, London: Faber and Faber, 1988, p.154.
  91. 91 Bunmi Fadase, "Men Who Marry Younger Wives", The Punch (Lagos), February 27, 1984, p.4.
  92. 92 Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1965, p.237.
  93. 93 Fred Metcalf, op.cit., p.158.
  94. 94 F.P.A.'s Book of Quotations, New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1952, p.859.
  95. 95 National Concord (Lagos), p.1.
  96. 96 Kim Fletcher, "Behind Every Bad Man?", The Sunday Telegraph (London), December 31, 1989, p.21.
  97. 97 Esther Vilar, The Polygamous Sex, tr. by Sophie Wilkins, London: W.H. Allen, 1976, pp.86-87.
  98. 98 Interview by Charles Okechukwu, The Guardian (Lagos), November 1, 1987, p.4.
  99. 99 Betty Friedan, op.cit., p.29.
  100. 100 Bloomsbury Thematic Dictionary of Quotations, London: Bloomsbury, 1988, p.134.
  101. 101 Lagos Life, September 14-20, 1989, p.2.
  102. 102 Semantha Norman, "Why All Men Under 35 Should be Locked Up", Cosmopolitan (London), August 1989, p.64.
  103. 103 Andrea Dworkin, op.cit., p.116.
  104. 104 Ibid.
  105. 105 Ibid., p.117.
  106. 106 Ibid., p.118.
  107. 107 Ibid.
  108. 108 Debbie Raymond, "A Man Has The Right to See a Naked Body", The Independent (London), July 1, 1989, p.14.
  109. 109 Judy Allen and Dyan Sheldon, op.cit., p.53.
  110. 110 Quoted in Chinweizu, Invocations and Admonitions, Lagos: Pero Press, 1986, p.65.
  111. 111 Variant of "Shark's Love", Ibid.
  112. 112 "Carter Statement on Draft Registration", The New York Times, February 9, 1980, p.8.
  113. 113 BBC World Service, February (?), 1989.