Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Family Matters: Feminist Concepts in African Philosophy of Culture

Family Matters: Feminist Concepts in African Philosophy of Culture

Nzegwu, Nkiru Uwechia

Paperback

Series: Suny Series, Feminist Philosophy

African HistoryGeneral World HistoryWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0791467449
ISBN13: 9780791467442
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Mar 9 2006
Pages: 330
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.79 Width: 6.80 Depth: 9.12
Language: English

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.

Also in

Women's Studies

View All