"As men increased their labour force, wealth and prestige through the accumulation of wives, so also did women through…"

"Man seems to have wanted… to give the universe his own gender…anything believed to have value belongs to men and is m…"

"“Since women were basically seen as producers, the principals of control and protection applied to them throughout th…"

"A woman at this stage of her life no longer sought to be sexually attractive to men, and was no longer in sexual comp…"

"In the traditional society, a flexible gender system meant that male roles were open to certain categories of women t…"

"“The fact that biological sex did not always correspond to ideological gender meant that women could play roles usual…"

"She is said to have had about 24 wives… the qualities attributed to her were hard work and perseverance. She was … a …"

"Extremely powerful and assertive women were able to dominate their husbands."

"The men were no longer known by their own names, but by reference to their role as husband."

"It was with pride that Nwokocha Agbadi returned the twenty bags of cowries to his former son-in-law and he even added…"