Introduction: Exhuming subjugated knowledge and liberating marginalized epistemes
Divining knowledge: the man question in ifá?
(Re)casting the Yorùbá world: Ifá, Ìyá and the signification of difference
Matripotency: Ìyá in philosophical concepts and socio-policial institutions
Writing and gendering the past: Akọ̀wé and the endogenous production of history
The gender dictaters: making gender attributions in religion and culture
Towards a genealogy of gender, gendered names, and naming practices
The poetry of weeping brides: the role and impact of marriage residence in the making of praise names
Changing names: the roles of Christianity and Islam in making Yorùbá names kosher for the modern world
Conclusion: Motherhood in the quest for social transformation.