Male Daughters, Female Husbands: Gender and Sex in an African Society

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Bloomsbury Academic, 1987 - 223 pages

Challenging the received orthodoxies of social anthropology, Ifi Amadiume argues that in precolonial society, sex and gender did not necessarily coincide. Examining the structures that enabled women to achieve power, she shows that roles were neither rigidly masculinized nor feminized.

Economic changes in colonial times undermined women's status and reduced their political role and Dr Amadiume maintains, patriarchal tendencies introduced by colonialism persist today, to the detriment of women.

Critical of the chauvinist stereotypes established by colonial anthropology, the author stresses the importance of recognizing women's economic activities as an essential basis of their power. She is also critical of those western feminists who, when relating to African women, tend to accept the same outmoded projections.

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Table des matières

Preface
1
Acknowledgements
11
Area and Background
17
Droits d'auteur

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À propos de l'auteur (1987)

Ifi Amadiume is a award-winning poet and a political activist as well as an academic. She has lived in Nigeria and the UK and is currently associate professor at Dartmouth College, Hanover. There, she teaches in both the Department of Religion and the African-American Studies Programme. Professor Amadiume is author of the influential Male Daughters, Female Husbands (Zed Books, 1988) which won the Choice Outstanding Academic Book of the Year award in 1989.
Ifi Amadiume is a award-winning poet and a political activist as well as an academic. She has lived in Nigeria and the UK and is currently associate professor at Dartmouth College, Hanover. There, she teaches in both the Department of Religion and the African-American Studies Programme. Professor Amadiume is author of the influential Male Daughters, Female Husbands (Zed Books, 1988) which won the Choice Outstanding Academic Book of the Year award in 1989.

Informations bibliographiques

TitreMale Daughters, Female Husbands: Gender and Sex in an African Society
ACLS Humanities E-Book
Black women writers series
Volume 11 de Critique Influence Change
AuteurIfi Amadiume
Éditionillustrée, réimprimée
ÉditeurBloomsbury Academic, 1987
Original provenant del'Université de Virginie
Numérisé24 juil. 2008
ISBN0862325943, 9780862325947
Longueur223 pages
  
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