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Theorizing Matriarchy in Africa: Kinship Ideologies and Systems in Africa and Europe

  • Amadiume I
Palgrave Macmillan US, (2005), 83-98
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-137-09009-6_5
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My major problematic in this chapter is the theorization of the vexing concept of matriarchy, not as a totalitarian system—that is, the total rule governing a society—but as a structural system in juxtaposition with another system in a social structure....

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Amadiume, I. (2005). Theorizing Matriarchy in Africa: Kinship Ideologies and Systems in Africa and Europe. In African Gender Studies A Reader (pp. 83–98). Palgrave Macmillan US. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-09009-6_5

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