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Igbo and african religious perspectives on religious conscience and the global economy ifi amadiume religious conscience and the global economy. Read male daughters, female husbands by professor ifi amadiume for free with a 30 day free trial. Gender and inequality in precolonial africa ifi amadiume, reinventing africa. There, she teaches in both the department of religion and the africanamerican studies programme. Some historians have detected a tendency among agegraded homosexual forms to give way over time to genderinscribed systems in both europe trumbach 1989 and japan leupp 1996. Although the strasbourg court is primarily a mechanism for the protection of individual human rights, many of the leading cases on violation of article 3 have a collective or a structural dimension. Each week two students will initiate discussion by raising a set of issues and questions related to the readings. Male daughters, female husbands by professor ifi amadiume.
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The responses can include questions, ideas you liked, disagreements. Women chiefs and post war reconstruction in sierra leone. Amadiume, ifi colonalism, womens status, society defining females the nature of women in society ardener, shirley roles, women, society pervasive prejudice. It is accredited by the department of higher education and training dhet and is indexed in the international bibliography of social science ibss. Reading ifi amadiume and nwando achebe on female husbands in igboland in relation to m. Matriarchy, religion and culture 1998 cheikh anta diop, the african origin. In 1987, more than a decade before the dawn of queer theory, ifi amadiume wrote male daughters, female husbands, to critical acclaim. Extract from nivedita menon seeing like a feminist penguinzubaan 2012 body if they see breasts and long hair coming, they call it woman if beard and whiskers they call it man but look, the self that hovers in between is neither man nor woman.
Readings women in national liberation struggles week 4 september 10 1 rosemary mpuku nyaywa mama unip julia chikamoneka. Barbara mann, indigena usa ifi amadiume, indigena africa the international networking is guaranteed through congresses, egroups, private and university research facilities, courses of studies and numerous publications. Fresh perspectives on the permanent collection from. Folklore, and particularly proverbs are repositories of a communitys memory that bear traces of older cultures that may still be discernible in contemporary culture. Expanding the lens ifi amadiume in this exploratory essay, ifi amadiume, takes a critical look at the normative the art of seduction pdf robert greene getabstract. Nigeria, 1960s pdf with commentary at kansas michaeljohnston, georgina fl. Scott, american, born 1948 mammy under undue influence, 2007.
Anthropology 2650b history and theory of social anthropology ii 2 q inclass presentation. African oral literature, like other forms of popular. I was a member of black womens blueprints bwb six member delegation and sister crista was representing womens all points bulletin wapb, an organization that she cofounded to address the rampant. As in the dramatic dialogues of plato, the characters jj and ia are not the actual persons jacobsen and amadiume but, to a large extent, fictional characters for me to use in exploring the place of love in justice. Ifi amadiume 1987, arnfred 2011 mainstream gender theory underpinned by the assumption of hierarchical gender ignores plurality in gender relations and status of women across the world nkiru uwechia nzengwu, 2006 definitions of gender, gender equality and empowerment can be. Expanding the lens ifi amadiume in this exploratory essay, ifi amadiume, takes a critical look at the normative prescribed sexual practices as well as counter normative alternatives subversive alternatives to sexuality both in africa and in other cultures as they. Sexuality, african religiocultural traditions and modernity. Male daughters, female husbands professor ifi amadiume ebok. This chapter employs a worldview lens for exploring how peace is interpreted across the diverse groups in south africa. Extract from nivedita menon seeing like a feminist. African oral literature, like other forms of popular culture, is not merely folksy, domestic entertainment but a domain in which individuals in a variety of social roles are free to comment on power. The reader of the talking paper should write down herhis response to the reflections.
Male daughters, female husbands gender and sex in an african society, ifi amadiume, oct 15, 1987, social science, 223 pages. Student essays, grounded in secondary readings that provide broader context, will be aimed at the project website, coldcases. In response to the persistence of patriarchal dominance in western society, equality advocates have become increasingly critical of gender disparities, calling for more equal representation. Male daughters, female husbands by amadiume, professor ifi. The labour law and development research laboratory lldrl housed at mcgill universitys. What reparation does a torture survivor obtain from. One copy is for the professors files and the second copy is for a seminar colleague. She has lived in nigeria and the uk and is currently associate professor at dartmouth college, hanover. Afrika has a rich history of afrikan women leaders and freedom fighters. Ifi amadiume born 23 april 1947 is a nigerian poet, anthropologist and essayist.
We would like to show you a description here but the site wont allow us. Ifi amadiume is a awardwinning poet and a political activist as well as an academic. Matriarchy, religion and culture1997, a work in wh ich she outlines concerns in her output as a whole, she shows that a strong matriarchal legacy throughout africa has allowed women to acquire. Amadiume concludes with a discussion on what has happened to women in the postindependence period, particularly in regard to local and national politics. Unconventional evidence of race and gender discrimination ayres, ian women, discimination, gender. The practice of male daughters and samesex marriage among women in igbo culture does not make igbo society less heterosexual. About the au thor ifi amadiume is an awardwinning poet and a political activist. Challenging the received orthodoxies of social anthropology, ifi amadiume argues that in precolonial society, sex and gender did. Hood museum of art, dartmouth college, in association with university of washington press, 2008. Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and. Revisiting female power and the notion of african feminism. There are also several books on reserve and in the reference section of the library that provide more information on african women in history, fiction and film. The challenge of gendered digital divides to peoplecentered governance.
Smiths documentation of lesbianism in carriacou, i identify related logics of lineage organization, prostitution, and property devolution linking both cases to queer conjugal forms. Amadiume 1987, ukpokolo 2010, and korie 2017 assert that samesex marriage as practiced in some igbo societies implies that the children of the male daughter retain their mother patrilineage. Matriarchy and the contemporary women writers of cameroon welcome to the ideals repository. The values and usefulness of samesex marriages among the. Gender and sex in an african society ifi amadiume, zed press, london, 1987. Much of the evidence marshalled by ifi amadiume, in her afrikan matriarchal foundations. Thus, the authors experience of many kurdish and chechen. Amadiume concludes with a discussion on what has happened to women in the. Pdf revisiting female power and the notion of african. Using primary evidence including fbi records, naacp files, old newspaper clippings, court transcripts, and personal archives students come to see and understand history from the inside out.
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