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Male Daughters, Female Husbands

Paperback • 2015 • 1. edition

Male Daughters, Female Husbands

By Ifi Amadiume

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About the book

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 ...Show more

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9781783603329

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Zed Books Ltd

Published year

2015

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1

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Male Daughters, Female Husbands

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Paperback

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