Ifi Amadiume

Male Daughters, Female Husbands (eBook, PDF)

Gender and Sex in an African Society

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In 1987, more than a decade before the dawn of queer theory, Ifi Amadiume wrote Male Daughters, Female Husbands, to critical acclaim.

This compelling and highly original book frees the subject position of 'husband' from its affiliation with men, and goes on to do the same for other masculine attributes, dislocating sex, gender and sexual orientation. Boldly arguing that the notion of gender, as constructed in Western feminist discourse, did not exist in Africa before the colonial imposition of a dichotomous understanding of sexual difference, Male Daughters, Female Husbands examines the structures in African society that enabled people to achieve power, showing that roles were not rigidly masculinized nor feminized.

At a time when gender and queer theory are viewed by some as being stuck in an identity-politics rut, this outstanding study not only warns against the danger of projecting a very specific, Western notion of difference onto other cultures, but calls us to question the very concept of gender itself.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. März 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781783603336
• Artikelnr.: 42509051

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 a professor at Dartmouth College, USA. There, she teaches both in the Department of Religion and on 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

Foreword to the Critique Influence Change Edition Preface to the Critique
Influence Change Edition Preface Acknowledgements Introduction Part I: The
19th Century 1. Gender and Economy 2. Women, Wealth, Titles and power 3.
Gender and Political Organization 4. The Politics of Motherhood: Women and
the Ideology-Making Process 5. The Ideology of Gender 6. Ritual and Gender
Part II: The Colonial Period 7. Colonialism and the Erosion of Women's
Power 8. The Erosion of Women's Power Part III: The Post-Independence
Period 9. The Marginalisation of women's Position 10. Wealth, Titles and
Motherhood 11. The Female Element in Other Igbo Societies 12. Gender, Class
and Female Solidarity 13. Conclusion Appendixes Bibliography Glossary Index