Ifi Amadiume

Re-Inventing Africa

Matriarchy, Religion and Culture

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Produktbeschreibung

Challenging western anthropologists to recognize their own class-based, patriarchal thought, Ifi Amadiume, the author of

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Zed Books Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 302g
• ISBN-13: 9781856495349
• ISBN-10: 1856495345
• Artikelnr.: 21724674

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Writing Africa Part I: Rewriting History 1. The Matriarchal
Roots of Africa 2. Race and Gender: Cheikh Anta Diop's Moral Philosophy 3.
Theorizing Matriarchy in Africa: Kinship Ideologies and Socio-Cultural
Systems in Africa and Europe 4. Women's Achievements in African Political
Systems: Transforming Culture for 500 years 5. Gender and Social Movements
in Africa: A West African Experience 6. Gender and the Contestation of
Religion: A Historical Perspective on African societies Part II:
Decolonizing History 7. African Women and Politics: A History of
Transformation 8. Cycles of Western Imperialism: Feminism, Race, Gender,
Class and Power 9. In the Company of Women: Love, Struggle, Class and Our
Feminisms