African Possibilities

A Matriarchitarian Perspective for Social Justice

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

AvIfi Amadiume,USA) Amadiume, Ifi (Dartmouth College

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In this latest book by the award-winning author of the hugely influential Male Daughters, Female Husbands, Ifi Amadiume propels gender relations beyond dichotomies and discriminations, and towards a power-sharing argument in discourse, contestation and resistance.Representing the culmination of over 40 years of ground-breaking work on notions of matriarchy at the intersection of the Igbo-African universe and the Western capitalist reality, Amadiume sets forth a blueprint for a bold new matriarchitarianism, critiquing all forms of social injustice with a shared matriarchal-relational humanism. In each chapter of the book, Amadiume applies these principles to a dazzling array of subjects: from religious leadership, kinship and family relations, to sexuality, creative writing and matters of conscience in race, class and gender. African Possibilities explodes our notions of matriarchy into original and compelling arguments, and offers a radical alternative approach to the world’s entrenched injustices.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-02-22
Mått158 x 238 x 24 mm
Vikt535 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor248
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781350333802

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Ifi Amadiume is a tenured full Professor at Dartmouth College, USA, where she has taught both in the Department of Religion and the African and African American Studies Program. She has taught courses cross-listed in many departments and programs such as Women and Gender Studies Program, and the Anthropology Department. She is also a writer and an award-winning poet of many books. Amadiume is the author of several books and articles, including the influential Male Daughters, Female Husbands (Zed Books, 1988, new edition 2015) that won the Choice Outstanding Academic Book of the Year award in 1989 and one of Africa’s Best 100 Books of the 20th century award.

AcknowledgementsDedicationPREFACEINTRODUCTIONPART 1 VOICINGChapter One, Prophecy, Authenticity, Oppositional Models of Resistance inAfricaChapter Two, African Perspectives on Religious Conscience and the GlobalEconomyChapter Three, Culture and Religious Traditions of Gender and Development inAfrica: Gendering Civil Society and the StateChapter Four, The Endogenous Project And A Struggle for Culture and VoicePART 11 ALTERNATIVESChapter Five, Citizenship, Rights and Freedoms in Contesting ReligiousNarratives of Gods and GoddessesChapter Six, Mama Asta: an African Muslim matriarchy in SenegalChapter Seven, Bodies, Choices, Globalizing NeoColonial Enchantments: AfricanMatriarchs and Mammy WaterPART III POSSIBILITIESChapter Eight, Gender, Culture and the Family in AfricaChapter Nine, Matriarchy and the Postcolonial: Possibilities and DisenchantmentsChapter Ten, Sexuality, African Religio-Cultural Traditions and Modernity:Expanding the LensChapter Eleven, Writing for Justice, Seeking Inclusiveness, Implicating the WorldChapter Twelve, Postscript or Afterword: Progressing with Matriarchitization

Contrary to feminist theories that presuppose an almighty patriarchy that is hegemonic globally, Ifi Amadiume has been theorizing, over and over again, the reality that white supremacist imperialist patriarchy never succeeded in wiping out indigenous knowledge systems and women’s agency in toto. Rather, wherever there is patriachiality, careful research methodologies are bound to reveal oppositional matriachiality and vice versa. Drawing from her background in the cultural studies of religion, the inspirational poet-activist intellectual reminds us in African Possibilities that the world would be a more humane place when the marginalization of the immense contributions from poor women and Africans is ended to make way for the democratization and decolonization of economic, political, educational, technological, family, and spiritual institutional leadership in the interest of all.