TY - BOOK AU - Amadiume, Ifi TI - Reinventing Africa: matriarchy, religion & culture SN - 1856495337 U1 - 320.96 PY - 1994/// CY - London PB - Zed Books KW - Matriarchy KW - Sex role KW - Study skills KW - Social conditions KW - Feminism N1 - Writing Africa: African social history and the sociology of history -- Re-writing History -- The matriarchal roots of Africa -- Race and gender: Cheikh Anta Diop's moral philosophy -- Theorizing matriarchy in Africa: kinship ideologies and systems in Africa and Europe -- Women's achievements in African political systems: transforming culture for 500 years -- Gender and social movements in Africa: a West African experience -- Gender and the contestation of religion: a historical perspective on African societies -- Decolonizing History -- African women and politics: a history of transformation -- Cycles of Western imperialism: feminism, race, gender, class and power -- In the company of women: love, struggle, class and our feminisms ER -