Gender, Ethnicity, and Social Change on the Upper Slave Coast

Greene documents the changes that occurred in ethnic boundaries as the Anlo community absorbed refugees, traders, and conquerors and later began to redefine the boundaries between insiders and outsiders.

She then analyzes the way shifting ethnic definitions and competition for scarce resources affected gender relations.

Clan elders increasingly sacrificed the interests of the young women under their authority in marital arrangements because of an increasing preference for clan endogamy.

Greene explores the way some of these women were able to reassert their voices through membership in influential "outsider" religious orders.

These new alignments formed a base of support from which Anlo women and a number of ethnic outsiders successfully challenged their own marginalization.