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

Male Daughters, Female Husbands: Gender and Sex in an African Society

Ifi Amadiume

256 pages first pub 1987 (editions)

nonfiction gender challenging informative slow-paced
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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 neit...

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