Male Daughters, Female Husbands: Gender and Sex in an by Professor Ifi Amadiume,Pat Caplan
By Professor Ifi Amadiume,Pat Caplan
This compelling and hugely unique e-book frees the topic place of 'husband' from its association with males, and is going directly to do a similar for different masculine attributes, dislocating intercourse, gender and sexual orientation. Boldly arguing that the proposal of gender, as built in Western feminist discourse, didn't exist in Africa sooner than the colonial imposition of a dichotomous knowing of sexual distinction, Male Daughters, lady Husbands examines the constructions in African society that enabled humans to accomplish strength, displaying that roles weren't rigidly masculinized nor feminized.
At a time while gender and queer idea are seen by means of a few as being caught in an identity-politics rut, this extraordinary research not just warns opposed to the chance of projecting a truly particular, Western suggestion of distinction onto different cultures, yet calls us to query the very inspiration of gender itself.
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