Ifi Amadiume

Male Daughters, Female Husbands

Gender and Sex in an African Society

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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 achi… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-78360-334-3
EAN: 9781783603343
Produktnummer: 18440689
Verlag: Zed Books
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Seitenangabe: 248 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 1'718 KB
Auflage: 1. Auflage

Über den Autor

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.