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Zusatztext In this triumphant return, Professor Ifi Amadiume, the foremost scholar of matriarchy in West Africa, further develops the concept of matriarchitarianism, introduced in her influential work, Male Daughters, Female Husbands: Gender and Sex in an African Society (1987). Rooted in the works of contemporary colleagues in and of the African continent, students of empire and liberation will find African Possibilities to be foundational to the establishment and growth of inclusive epistemologies by African scholars, that imagines a just future for Africa and the world. Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext In this latest book by the award-winning author of the hugely influential Male Daughters, Female Husbands , Ifi Admadiume 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. Vorwort Ifi Amadiume offers a blueprint for a bold new matriarchitarianism , critiquing all forms of social injustice with a shared matriarchal-relational humanism. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgementsDedicationPREFACEINTRODUCTIONPART 1 VOICINGChapter One, Prophecy, Authenticity, Oppositional Models of Resistance inAfricaChapter Two, African Perspectives on Religious Conscience and the GlobalEconomyChapter Three, Culture and Religious Traditions of Gender and Development inAfrica: Gendering Civil Society and the StateChapter Four, The Endogenous Project And A Struggle for Culture and VoicePART 11 ALTERNATIVESChapter Five, Citizenship, Rights and Freedoms in Contesting ReligiousNarratives of Gods and GoddessesChapter Six, Mama Asta: an ...
