Ifi Amadiume

African Possibilities (eBook, ePUB)

A Matriarchitarian Perspective for Social Justice

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350333819
• Artikelnr.: 69442746

Autorenporträt

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 a professor at Dartmouth College, USA. There, she teaches both in the Department of Religion and on 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.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Dedication PREFACE INTRODUCTION PART 1 VOICING Chapter One
Prophecy
Authenticity
Oppositional Models of Resistance in Africa Chapter Two
African Perspectives on Religious Conscience and the Global Economy Chapter Three
Culture and Religious Traditions of Gender and Development in Africa: Gendering Civil Society and the State Chapter Four
The Endogenous Project And A Struggle for Culture and Voice PART 11 ALTERNATIVES Chapter Five
Citizenship
Rights and Freedoms in Contesting Religious Narratives of Gods and Goddesses Chapter Six
Mama Asta: an African Muslim matriarchy in Senegal Chapter Seven
Bodies
Choices
Globalizing NeoColonial Enchantments: African Matriarchs and Mammy Water PART III POSSIBILITIES Chapter Eight
Gender
Culture and the Family in Africa Chapter Nine
Matriarchy and the Postcolonial: Possibilities and Disenchantments Chapter Ten
Sexuality
African Religio-Cultural Traditions and Modernity: Expanding the Lens Chapter Eleven
Writing for Justice
Seeking Inclusiveness
Implicating the World Chapter Twelve
Postscript or Afterword: Progressing with Matriarchitization