Ifi Amadiume (jan 1, 1947 – 11h 18min, nov 9, 2024 y)

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ABOUT
- Nigerian, PhD at University of London, teaches at Dartmouth College
- fieldwork among the Igbo of West Africa, focusing on gender, kinship, and power in pre- and post- colonial contexts
- emphasis on a non-Western approach to feminism that draws from Indigenous African concepts
- celebrated writer and poet

MAJOR WORKS
- Male Daughters, Female Husbands: Gender and Sex in an African Society (1987)
- Reinventing Africa: Matriarchy, REligion, and Culture (1997)
- The Mouth That Begs: Hunger, Cannibalism, and the Politics of Eating in Modern Africa (1999)

CONTRIBUTIONS
- challenging Western feminist assumptions
- concept of gender fluidity
- critique of colonialism and its impact on gender
- African feminism and Indigenous knowledge systems

CRITIQUES
- romanticization of precolonial gender relations
- overemphasis on colonialism as the cause of gender inequality
- application of Igbo gender systems to broader African contexts
- oversimplifying the diversity within Western feminist movements

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