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Re-Inventing Africa: Matriarchy, Religion and Culture

Autor Ifi Amadiume
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 noi 1997
This extraordinary book issues a clarion call for a new understanding of Africa. The author of the best-selling Male Daughters/Female Husbands here issues a challenge to western anthropologists to recognize their own complicity in producing a version of Africa that is often little more than a reflection of their own class-based, patriarchal thought.

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

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

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