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Njinga of Ndongo and Matamba
You're Dead to Me
Jinga - A Man Without Rank
Between 16 31 and round 16 forty one, jinga continued to win battles and take territories. This is the period when she decides to be referred to as a man by the people in the court. On one level, she was able to subvert gender norms because of her privileged status as a ruler. But like we just discusse, she also reproduced patriarchal ideas that equated masculinity with power and femininity with subservience. Daniel: I'm pretty reluctant to ascribe pronouns from the vantage point of the present, but would argue that gender nonconformity was an integral part of jinga combating patriarchal power.
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