Male Daughters, Female Husbands : Gender and Sex in an African Society / Ifi Amadiume.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Amadiume, Ifi, author.

Series:

Essential Amadiume.

Essential Amadiume

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gender identity.

Igbo (African people).

Women, Igbo.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2026.

System Details:

text file rdaft

Summary:

Winner of the Choice Outstanding Academic Book of the Year In 1987, more than a decade before the dawn of queer theory, Ifi Amadiume wrote Male Daughters, Female Husbands to critical acclaim. Here Amadiume boldly argues 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. This new Essential Amadiume edition illustrates for a new generation of readers the specifically Western origins of the gender essentialisms to which much current gender theory reacts. In showing how those notions have been projected onto other cultures through colonialism, and in exploring traditional west African practices that conceive of gender otherwise, it re-opens other alternatives to them.

Contents:

Foreword to the Essential Amadiume 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

ISBN:

9781350507821

OCLC:

1587070050