African Possibilities: A Matriarchitarian Perspective for Social Justice
Autor Ifi Amadiumeen Limba Engleză Hardback – 22 feb 2024
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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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781350333802
ISBN-10: 1350333808
Pagini: 248
Dimensiuni: 158 x 238 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Zed Books
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1350333808
Pagini: 248
Dimensiuni: 158 x 238 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Zed Books
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Cuprins
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
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
Recenzii
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.
In this triumphant return, Professor Ifi Amadiume, the foremost scholar of matriarchy in West Africa, further develops the concept of matriarchitarianism, introduced in her influential work, Male Daughters, Female Husbands: Gender and Sex in an African Society (1987). Rooted in the works of contemporary colleagues in and of the African continent, students of empire and liberation will find African Possibilities to be foundational to the establishment and growth of inclusive epistemologies by African scholars, that imagines a just future for Africa and the world.
In this triumphant return, Professor Ifi Amadiume, the foremost scholar of matriarchy in West Africa, further develops the concept of matriarchitarianism, introduced in her influential work, Male Daughters, Female Husbands: Gender and Sex in an African Society (1987). Rooted in the works of contemporary colleagues in and of the African continent, students of empire and liberation will find African Possibilities to be foundational to the establishment and growth of inclusive epistemologies by African scholars, that imagines a just future for Africa and the world.