Re-Inventing Africa: Matriarchy, Religion and Culture
Autor Ifi Amadiumeen Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 noi 1997
Professor Amadiume calls instead for a new history of Africa, made and written by Africans. This is such a book.
The book
* explores how imperialism, violence, patriarchy and class-based social structures - originally imposed by colonialism - have become internalized to result in a contemporary Africa cursed with neo-colonial states.
* uncovers the hidden matriarchal history of Africa which continues to empower women in political struggle throughout the continent
* looks at the masculinization of indigenous African religions, effected largely by the imposition of Christianity and Islam
* provides a guide to the main Afro-centric social theorists, writing a new social history of their continent.
Dedicated to the diasporic African communities in their struggle to construct alternative, anti-racist and anti-imperialist epistemologies of self-representation and self-generated ideals, this is the beginning of a new vision of Africa, from the powerful voice of an African woman.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781856495349
ISBN-10: 1856495345
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: ZED BOOKS
Colecția Zed Books
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1856495345
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: ZED BOOKS
Colecția Zed Books
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Cuprins
Introduction Writing Africa
African social history and the sociology of history
PART ONE RE-WRITING HISTORY
Chapter One The Matriarchal Roots of Africa
Chapter Two Race and Gender
Cheikh Anta Diop's Moral Philosophy
Chapter Three Theorizing Matriarchy in Africa
Kinship Ideologies and socio-cultural systems in Africa and Europe
Chapter Four Women?s Achievements in African Political Systems
Transforming culture for 500 years
Chapter Five Gender and Social Movements in Africa
A West African experience
Chapter Six Gender and the Contestation of Religion
A historical perspective on African societies
PART TWO DE-COLONIZING HISTORY
Chapter Seven African Women and Politics
A history of transformation
Chapter Eight Cycles of Western Imperialism
Feminism, race, gender, class and power
Chapter Nine In the Company of Women
Love, struggle, class and our feminisms
African social history and the sociology of history
PART ONE RE-WRITING HISTORY
Chapter One The Matriarchal Roots of Africa
Chapter Two Race and Gender
Cheikh Anta Diop's Moral Philosophy
Chapter Three Theorizing Matriarchy in Africa
Kinship Ideologies and socio-cultural systems in Africa and Europe
Chapter Four Women?s Achievements in African Political Systems
Transforming culture for 500 years
Chapter Five Gender and Social Movements in Africa
A West African experience
Chapter Six Gender and the Contestation of Religion
A historical perspective on African societies
PART TWO DE-COLONIZING HISTORY
Chapter Seven African Women and Politics
A history of transformation
Chapter Eight Cycles of Western Imperialism
Feminism, race, gender, class and power
Chapter Nine In the Company of Women
Love, struggle, class and our feminisms