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

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

Professor Ifi Amadiume

256 pages hardcover

3 editions

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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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