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

Male Daughters, Female Husbands: Gender and Sex in an African Society (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781350507784)

Vendor: Ifi Amadiume
Product type: Books
Format: Hardcover
$61.00
$61.00
$61.00
Subtotal: $61.00
Male Daughters, Female Husbands: Gender and Sex in an African Society by Amadiume, Ifi

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

$61.00
Male Daughters, Female Husbands: Gender and Sex in an African Society by Amadiume, Ifi

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

$61.00
Format: Hardcover
Description
Description
x

Winner of the Choice Outstanding Academic Book of the Year

In 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.

This 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 otherwise, it re-opens other alternatives to them.

Author: Ifi Amadiume
ISBN-10: 1350507784
ISBN-13: 9781350507784
Publisher: Zed Books
Language: English
Published: 02/19/2026
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.94lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.56d
By Ifi Amadiume
By Ifi Amadiume
x
Ifi Amadiume is an award-winning poet and a political activist as well as an academic. She has lived in Nigeria and the UK and is currently associate professor at Dartmouth College, USA. There, she teaches in both the Department of Religion and the African-American Studies Programme.

Recently Viewed Products