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Male daughters, female husbands : gender and sex in an African society
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ISBN: 9781783603329 1783603321 9780862325947 9781783603336 9781783603343 Year: 2022 Publisher: London Zed

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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 achieve power, showing that roles were not rigidly masculinized nor feminized.At a time when gender and queer theory are viewed by some as being stuck in an identity-politics rut, this outstanding study not only warns against the danger of projecting a very specific, Western notion of difference onto other cultures, but calls us to question the very concept of gender itself.


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Extraordinary Encounters
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ISBN: 1782385908 9781782385905 9781782385899 1782385894 Year: 2015 Publisher: New York Oxford

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Given the anthropological focus on ethnography as a kind of deep immersion, the interview poses theoretical and methodological challenges for the discipline. This volume explores those challenges and argues that the interview should be seen as a special, productive site of ethnographic encounter, a site of a very particular and important kind of knowing. In a range of social contexts and cultural settings, contributors show how the interview is experienced and imagined as a kind of space within which personal, biographic and social cues and norms can be explored and interrogated. The intervie


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Women Cross-Culturally
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ISBN: 902797649X 020201147X 9783110818567 3110818566 9789027976499 9780202011479 Year: 2011 Publisher: Berlin Boston

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