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Re-inventing Africa: matriarchy, religion, and culture

Ifi Amadiume c1997 © Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Academic Division
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  • 9781856495349 (paper)
  • 9781856495332 (hardcover)
Subject
  • Women's Studies
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  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgements (page vi)
  • Preface (page vii)
  • Introduction Writing Africa: African social history and the sociology of history (page 1)
  • Part One Re-writing History (page 27)
    • 1 The matriarchal roots of Africa (page 29)
    • 2 Race and gender: Cheikh Anta Diop's moral philosophy (page 52)
    • 3 Theorizing matriarchy in Africa: kinship ideologies and systems in Africa and Europe (page 71)
    • 4 Women's achievements in African political systems: transforming culture for 500 years (page 89)
    • 5 Gender and social movements in Africa: a West African experience (page 109)
    • 6 Gender and the contestation of religion: a historical perspective on African societies (page 144)
  • Part Two Decolonizing History (page 159)
    • 7 African women and politics: a history of transformation (page 161)
    • 8 Cycles of Western imperialism: feminism, race, gender, class and power (page 183)
    • 9 In the company of women: love, struggle, class and our feminisms (page 199)
  • Index (page 208)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
JMAS 37.3 (Sept. 1999): 516-518 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-278X%28199909%2937%3A3%3C516%3ARAMRAC%3E2.0.CO%3B2-S
JAH 40.1 (1999): 166-167 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0021-8537%281999%2940%3A1%3C166%3ADAH%3E2.0.CO%3B2-B
CJAS 32.3 (1998): 594-622 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0008-3968%281998%2932%3A3%3C594%3ACSTMSF%3E2.0.CO%3B2-U
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