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

by Amadiume, Ifi

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Book desription: London, England, U.K.: Zed Books, 1987 Challenging the orthodoxies of social anthropology, the author, a Nigerian sociologist, 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 neither rigidly masculine or feminine and argues that economic changes in colonial times undermined women's status and reduced their political role, and that patriarchial tendencies introduced by colonialism persist today to the detriment of women (green cover with white & orange lettering, slight edgewear, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy). Trade Paperback. Very Good.

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