Matriarchy And Power In Africa

Author : D. Iyam
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137382791
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Matriarchy and Power in Africa written by D. Iyam and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-12-11 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aneji Eko was technically illiterate, but she represents a resource for understanding the complexities of African and Nigerian cultures. This is an account of matriarchy and the complex ties of kinship, their influences in shaping childhood culture, and how they determined cultural expectations across ethnic groups.

Author : Ifi Amadiume
Publisher : Zed Books
ISBN 13 : 9781856495349
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Re-Inventing Africa written by Ifi Amadiume and published by Zed Books. This book was released on 1997-12 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reveals how conventional anthropology has consistently imposed European ideas of the "natural" nuclear family, women as passive object, and class differences on a continent with a long history of women with power doing things differently. Amadiume argues for an end to anthropology and calls instead for a social history of Africa, by Africans.

Author : Ifi Amadiume
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reinventing Africa written by Ifi Amadiume and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Toyin Falola
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351711210
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gendering Knowledge in Africa and the African Diaspora written by Toyin Falola and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-14 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gendering Knowledge in Africa and the African Diaspora addresses the question of to what extent the history of gender in Africa is appropriately inscribed in narratives of power, patriarchy, migration, identity and women and men’s subjection, emasculation and empowerment. The book weaves together compelling narratives about women, men and gender relations in Africa and the African Diaspora from multidisciplinary perspectives, with a view to advancing original ways of understanding these subjects. The chapters achieve three things: first, they deliberately target long-held but erroneous notions about patriarchy, power, gender, migration and masculinity in Africa and of the African Diaspora, vigorously contesting these, and debunking them; second, they unearth previously marginalized and little known his/herstories, depicting the dynamics of gender and power in places ranging from Angola to Arabia to America, and in different time periods, decidedly gendering the previously male-dominated discourse; and third, they ultimately aim to re-write the stories of women and gender relations in Africa and in the African Diaspora. As such, this work is an important read for scholars of African history, gender and the African Diaspora. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of African Studies, Diaspora Studies, Gender and History.

Author : Marsha R. Robinson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 073916855X
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Matriarchy, Patriarchy, and Imperial Security in Africa written by Marsha R. Robinson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2012 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Matriarchy, Patriarchy and Imperial Security in Africa will appeal to professionals and students of imperial and world history, international security and conflict resolution, development, globalization, and gender studies. The author argues that terrorism, piracy, acts of sabotage, and austerity budget mass protests will continue in Africa, Asia and the West until ordinary people around the world have positive answers to the Primordial Question: Will my family eat today and sleep peacefully through the night?

Author : Veronica Fynn Bruey
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793638578
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Patriarchy and Gender in Africa written by Veronica Fynn Bruey and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-03-25 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely and expansive multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary collection dissects precolonial, colonial, and post-independence issues of male dominance, power, and control over the female body in the legal, socio-cultural, and political contexts in Africa. Contributors focus on the historical, theoretical, and empirical narratives of intersecting perspectives of gender and patriarchy in at least ten countries across the major sub-regions of the African continent. In these well-researched chapters, authors provide a deeper understanding of patriarchy and gender inequality in identifying misogyny, resisting male supremacy, reforming discriminatory laws, embracing human-centered public policies, expanding academic scholarship on the continent, and more.

Author : Ifi Amadiume
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350333816
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Possibilities written by Ifi Amadiume and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-02-22 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this latest book by the award-winning author of the hugely influential Male Daughters, Female Husbands, Ifi Amadiume propels gender relations beyond dichotomies and discriminations, and towards a power-sharing argument in discourse, contestation and resistance. Representing the culmination of over 40 years of ground-breaking work on notions of matriarchy at the intersection of the Igbo-African universe and the Western capitalist reality, Amadiume sets forth a blueprint for a bold new matriarchitarianism, critiquing all forms of social injustice with a shared matriarchal-relational humanism. In each chapter of the book, Amadiume applies these principles to a dazzling array of subjects: from religious leadership, kinship and family relations, to sexuality, creative writing and matters of conscience in race, class and gender. African Possibilities explodes our notions of matriarchy into original and compelling arguments, and offers a radical alternative approach to the world's entrenched injustices.

Author : Cheikh Anta Diop
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cultural Unity of Negro Africa written by Cheikh Anta Diop and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Laura S. Grillo
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478002638
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Intimate Rebuke written by Laura S. Grillo and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-10 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout West African societies, at times of social crises, postmenopausal women—the Mothers—make a ritual appeal to their innate moral authority. The seat of this power is the female genitalia. Wielding branches or pestles, they strip naked and slap their genitals and bare breasts to curse and expel the forces of evil. In An Intimate Rebuke Laura S. Grillo draws on fieldwork in Côte d’Ivoire that spans three decades to illustrate how these rituals of Female Genital Power (FGP) constitute religious and political responses to abuses of power. When deployed in secret, FGP operates as spiritual warfare against witchcraft; in public, it serves as a political activism. During Côte d’Ivoire’s civil wars FGP challenged the immoral forces of both rebels and the state. Grillo shows how the ritual potency of the Mothers’ nudity and the conjuration of their sex embodies a moral power that has been foundational to West African civilization. Highlighting the remarkable continuity of the practice across centuries while foregrounding the timeliness of FGP in contemporary political resistance, Grillo shifts perspectives on West African history, ethnography, comparative religious studies, and postcolonial studies.

Author : Ifi Amadiume
Publisher : Red Sea Press(NJ)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Afrikan Matriarchal Foundations written by Ifi Amadiume and published by Red Sea Press(NJ). This book was released on 1987 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: