Chinweizu and Woman’s Place:

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" Chinweizu and Woman’s Place: "
Chinwe R. Ezeifeka

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1063602
Doc. No	:	LA107231
Call No	:	‭10.1163/15692108-12341488‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Chinwe R. Ezeifeka
Title & Author	:	Chinweizu and Woman’s Place: [Article] : A Response to Anatomy of Female Power\ Chinwe R. Ezeifeka
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	African and Asian Studies
Date	:	2021
Volume/ Issue Number	:	20/1-2
Page No	:	179–199
Abstract	:	This article examines the reality or illusion of the perceived ‘paradises’ of ‘female power’, the purported façade of patriarchy and the claimed pervasiveness of matriarchy in Chinweizu’s Anatomy of Female Power. By deconstructing the extreme essentialist perspectives of AFP, and in line with womanism, the article interrogates the perceived covert matriarchal power sites of the masculinist creation and argues that they essentialize woman’s place in fixed biologically defined gender spaces, hence negating the concept of societal power as exercised rather than possessed. These placements, while trivializing woman’s role in the public sphere, obviously obfuscate the acknowledged dual-sex political system in some African and Nigerian settings. Responding from the generally African and specifically Igbo experience, the work offers an alternative womanist conceptualization, beyond matriarchy-patriarchy and other gender stereotypic binaries; a humanistic form of gender fluidity where the synergy of the two genders will engender complementarity, collaboration, compromise and cooperation.
Descriptor	:	African Studies
Descriptor	:	Asian Studies
Descriptor	:	Chinweizu
Descriptor	:	female power
Descriptor	:	gender
Descriptor	:	General
Descriptor	:	matriarchy
Descriptor	:	Middle East and Islamic Studies
Descriptor	:	patriarchy
Descriptor	:	Social Sciences
Descriptor	:	womanism
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/15692108-12341488‬