Re-Inventing Africa : Matriarchy, Religion and Culture

Name: Re-Inventing Africa : Matriarchy, Religion and Culture
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ISBN: 9781856495349

ISBN-10: 1856495345

ISBN-13: 9781856495349

Edition: 1st 1997 (Reprint)

Authors: Ifi Amadiume

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In Re-inventing Africa, Ifi Amadiume challenges Western anthropologists to recognise that they have constructed a version of Africa that reflects their own class-based, patriarchal thought.

Book details

Edition: 1st
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Zed Books, Limited
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Preface


Introduction


Writing Africa: African social history and the sociology of history



Re-writing History



The matriarchal roots of Africa



Race and gender: Cheikh Anta Diop's moral philosophy



Theorizing matriarchy in Africa: kinship ideologies and systems in Africa and Europe



Women's achievements in African political systems: transforming culture for 500 years



Gender and social movements in Africa: a West African experience



Gender and the contestation of religion: a historical perspective on African societies



Decolonizing History



African women and politics: a history of transformation



Cycles of Western imperialism: feminism, race, gender, class and power



In the company of women: love, struggle, class and our feminisms


Index