Male daughters, female husbands : gender and sex in an African society / Ifi Amadiume.
Material type: TextPublisher: London ; Atlantic Highlands, N.J. : Zed Books, 1987Description: 223 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0862325943
- 9780862325947
- 0862325951
- 9780862325954
- 305.488963 19
- DT515.45.I33 A47 1987
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Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 305.488963 AMA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A425512B |
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305.48896073 BLA The Black feminist reader / | 305.48896073 GOL Don't play in the sun : one woman's journey through the color complex / | 305.48896073 JOR Black women, cultural images, and social policy / | 305.488963 AMA Male daughters, female husbands : gender and sex in an African society / | 305.488963975 SCH Peasants, traders, and wives : Shona women in the history of Zimbabwe, 1870-1939 / | 305.488969729 TAT Black beauty : aesthetics, stylization, politics / | 305.48897 KEE Keeping the campfires going : native women's activism in urban communities / |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-216) and index.
"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 as 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."--Publisher description.
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