ISBN:
9781783603336
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
1 Online-Ressource (248 pages)
Ausgabe:
1st ed
Serie:
Critique Influence Change
Paralleltitel:
Print version Amadiume, Professor Ifi Male Daughters, Female Husbands : Gender and Sex in an African Society
DDC:
305.4889632
Schlagwort(e):
Igbo (African people) -- Social life and customs
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Sex role -- Nigeria
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Woman-to-woman marriage -- Nigeria
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Women, Igbo
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Igbo (African people) ; Social life and customs
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Sex role ; Nigeria
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Woman-to-woman marriage ; Nigeria
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Women, Igbo
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Electronic books
Kurzfassung:
An early study of queer theory and non-Western feminism, challenging the concept of gender
Kurzfassung:
Front Cover -- critique influence change -- More Critical Praise for Male Daughters, Female Husbands -- About the Author -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface to the Critique Influence Change Edition -- Photographs -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- lgbo Women and Women's Literature -- Area and Background -- The Town of Nnobi -- Time Span and Method -- Notes -- Part 1: The 19th Century -- 1. Gender and the Economy -- Myths of Origin and Gender -- Ecology, Production and Gender Ideology -- Wealth and Gender -- Land and 'Male Daughters' -- Land and Wives -- Redistribution of Other Family Wealth -- Women's Economic Activities -- Women, Marketing and Cash -- Notes -- 2. Women, Wealth, Titles and Power -- Ekwe Title -- Involuntary Male Titles -- Two Prominent Obi(s) in 19th-Century Nnobi Society -- The 'Big Man', Eze Okigbo -- The Dominant Wife, lfeyinwa 'Olinke' -- Notes -- 3. Gender and Political Organization -- Descent Structure -- Political Administration -- 'Big Men' and Ekwe Women Compared -- Traditional Political Organizations: Gender Status, Interests and Rights -- Organization of Patrilineage Men -- Organization of Patrilineage Daughters -- Kinship Morality and Gender -- Daughter's Child, Nwadiana Category -- Organization of Patrilineage Wives -- Organization of Nnobi Women -- Notes -- 4. The Politics of Motherhood: Women and the Ideology-Making Process -- Marriage -- Marriage Songs and Gender Roles -- Birth -- The Post-Natal Confinement: Ino Ngwuo -- Maternity Songs and Gender Roles -- Death -- Mourning -- Funeral Songs and Gender Roles -- Folk-tales and Gender Roles -- Notes -- 5. The Ideology of Gender -- Language and Gender -- Gender Division of Space -- General Beliefs about Men and Women -- How They Made Them 'Men' -- Coming into Womanhood, lgba Agboghobia -- Notes -- 6. Ritual and Gender
Kurzfassung:
The Goddess Idemili -- The Hunter/Deity, Aho -- Ikpu Okwa Festival and Patriarchal Ideology -- Patriarchy versus Matriarchy? -- Spirit Possession and Gender Ideals -- Ritual Homage -- Notes -- Part 2: The Colonial Period -- 7. Colonialism and the Erosion of Women's Power -- Christianity: A New Gender Reality in the Religious Sphere -- Changes in Marriage Practice and Gender Relations -- Origin of the Problem: The Indigenous Institution of 'Female Husband' -- The Problem: Reinterpretation of the Institution of 'Female Husband' -- Notes -- 8. The Erosion of Women's Power -- Western Education and the Invisibility of Women -- The Exclusion of Women from the Colonial Local Administrative System -- Eze Okoli, the First Igwe of Nnobi, and the Birth of a New Era of Male Domination -- Women and the New Cash Economy -- Notes -- Part 3: The Post-Independence Period -- 9. The Marginalization of Women's Position -- Women and Local Politics -- Women and Local Political Issues: 1946-60 -- Women and Local Political Issues: 1960-82 -- New Gender Realities which Contributed to the Arrests -- The Collapse of NWO: 1980 -- The Response of the Women -- Notes -- 10. Wealth, Titles and Motherhood -- Women's New Poverty -- Men's New Wealth -- The Age-Grade Associations and Local Politics -- Contemporary Women's Associations and the Politics of Motherhood -- Notes -- 11. The Female Element in Other Igbo Societies -- Notes -- 12. Gender, Class and Female Solidarity -- Notes -- 13. Conclusion -- The Implications of a Rigid Gender System -- Gender and Power in Other African Societies -- The Implications of this Study for Future Research on African Women -- Some Practical Considerations -- Appendixes -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- Appendix 3 -- Appendix 4 -- Bibliography -- Glossary -- Index -- Back Cover
