Male Daughters, Female Husbands by Ifi Amadiume - 9781350507784

Male Daughters, Female HusbandsGender and Sex in an African Society\nAuthor(s): Ifi Amadiume\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Zed Books Ltd\nISBN-13: 9781350507784, 978-1350507784\nSynopsis\nWinner of the Choice Outstanding Academic Book of the Year\n\nIn 1987, more than a decade before the dawn of queer theory, Ifi Amadiume wrote Male Daughters, Female Husbands to critical acclaim. Here Amadiume boldly argues that the notion of gender, as constructed in Western feminist discourse, did not exist in Africa before the colonial imposition of a dichotomous understanding of sexual difference. \n\nThis new Essential Amadiume edition illustrates for a new generation of readers the specifically Western origins of the gender essentialisms to which much current gender theory reacts. In showing how those notions have been projected onto other cultures through colonialism, and in exploring traditional west African practices that conceive of gender.