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Family Matters : Feminist Concepts in African Philosophy of Culture

  • Paperback
  • Publisher: SUNY Press
  • 17.3 x 23.2 x 1.9 cm

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Charts new trends in gender studies through a compelling analysis of Igbo society.

Prior to European colonialism, Igboland, a region in Nigeria, was a nonpatriarchal, nongendered society governed by separate but interdependent political systems for men and women. In the last one hundred fifty years, the Igbo family has undergone vast structural changes in response to a barrage of cultural forces. Critically rereading social practices and oral and written histories of Igbo women and the society, Nkiru Uwechia Nzegwu demonstrates how colonial laws, edicts, and judicial institutions facilitated the creation of gender inequality in Igbo society. Nzegwu exposes the unlikely convergence of Western feminist and African male judges' assumptions about "traditional" African values where women are subordinate and oppressed. Instead she offers a conception of equality based on historical Igbo family structures and practices that challenges the epistemological and ontological bases of Western feminist inquiry.

  • Title

    Family Matters : Feminist Concepts in African Philosophy of Culture

  • Author

    Nkiru Uwechia Nzegwu

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    SUNY Press

  • Published

    March 2006

  • Weight

    772g

  • Dimensions

    17.3 x 23.2 x 1.9 cm

  • ISBN

    9780791467442

  • ISBN-10

    0791467449

  • Eden Code

    6227263

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