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| Varying Form of Title: | Gender and sex in African society
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| ISBN: | 0862325943
9780862325947
0862325951
9780862325954
9781783603336
178360333X
9781783603343
1783603348
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| Digital file characteristics: | data file
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-216) and index.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | Annotation 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.
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| Other form: | Print version: Amadiume, Ifi, 1947- Male daughters, female husbands. London ; Atlantic Highlands, N.J. : Zed Books, 1987 0862325943
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| Standard no.: | 9780862325947
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