Full Description
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.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Dedication
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
PART 1 VOICING
Chapter One, Prophecy, Authenticity, Oppositional Models of Resistance in
Africa
Chapter Two, African Perspectives on Religious Conscience and the Global
Economy
Chapter Three, Culture and Religious Traditions of Gender and Development in
Africa: Gendering Civil Society and the State
Chapter Four, The Endogenous Project And A Struggle for Culture and Voice
PART 11 ALTERNATIVES
Chapter Five, Citizenship, Rights and Freedoms in Contesting Religious
Narratives of Gods and Goddesses
Chapter Six, Mama Asta: an African Muslim matriarchy in Senegal
Chapter Seven, Bodies, Choices, Globalizing NeoColonial Enchantments: African
Matriarchs and Mammy Water
PART III POSSIBILITIES
Chapter Eight, Gender, Culture and the Family in Africa
Chapter Nine, Matriarchy and the Postcolonial: Possibilities and Disenchantments
Chapter Ten, Sexuality, African Religio-Cultural Traditions and Modernity:
Expanding the Lens
Chapter Eleven, Writing for Justice, Seeking Inclusiveness, Implicating the World
Chapter Twelve, Postscript or Afterword: Progressing with Matriarchitization
