TY - BOOK ID - 70182877 TI - Male daughters, female husbands : gender and sex in an African society PY - 2015 SN - 9781783603329 1783603321 9780862325947 9781783603336 9781783603343 PB - London : Zed Books, DB - UniCat KW - Igbo (African people) KW - Sex role KW - Woman-to-woman marriage KW - Women, Igbo KW - Gender studies KW - Ibo (peuple d'Afrique) KW - RĂ´le selon le sexe KW - Femmes ibo. KW - Homosexuels KW - Social life and customs KW - Moeurs et coutumes. KW - Mariage KW - #SBIB:39A73 KW - #SBIB:39A11 KW - Female husbands KW - Gynaegamy KW - Gynegamy KW - Woman-marriage KW - Marriage KW - Igbo women KW - Women, Igbo (African people) KW - Etnografie: Afrika KW - Antropologie : socio-politieke structuren en relaties KW - Gender role KW - Sex (Psychology) KW - Sex differences (Psychology) KW - Social role KW - Gender expression KW - Sexism KW - Gender roles KW - Gendered role KW - Gendered roles KW - Role, Gender KW - Role, Gendered KW - Role, Sex KW - Roles, Gender KW - Roles, Gendered KW - Roles, Sex KW - Sex roles KW - Moeurs et coutumes UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:70182877 AB - In 1987, more than a decade before the dawn of queer theory, Ifi Amadiume wrote Male Daughters, Female Husbands, to critical acclaim.This compelling and highly original book frees the subject position of 'husband' from its affiliation with men, and goes on to do the same for other masculine attributes, dislocating sex, gender and sexual orientation. Boldly arguing 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, Male Daughters, Female Husbands examines the structures in African society that enabled people to achieve power, showing that roles were not rigidly masculinized nor feminized.At a time when gender and queer theory are viewed by some as being stuck in an identity-politics rut, this outstanding study not only warns against the danger of projecting a very specific, Western notion of difference onto other cultures, but calls us to question the very concept of gender itself. ER -