Ifi Amadiume

Person · Open Library

Born

1947

Works

14

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Suppression of insulin feedback enhances the efficacy of PI3K inhibitors

   · 2018 · cited 640x

2. Male Daughters, Female Husbands

   · 2015 · cited 98x

3. PIP4Ks Suppress Insulin Signaling through a Catalytic-Independent Mechanism

   · 2019 · cited 64x

4. The Symbol Digit Modalities Test is an effective cognitive screen in pediatric onset multiple sclerosis (MS)

   · 2014 · cited 56x

5. Evaluation of a new laboratory model for pulp healing: preliminary study

   · 2008 · cited 52x

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Quotes

• “… a flexible gender system … meant … certain women could occupy roles and positions usually monopolized by men, and thereby exercise considerable power and authority over both men and women.”
• “As men increased their labour force, wealth and prestige through the accumulation of wives, so also did women through the institution of "female husbands.‟ When a woman paid money to acquire another woman, the woman who was bought had the status and customary rights of a wife, with respect to the woman who bought her, who was referred to as her husband, and the "female husband‟ had the same rights as a man over his wife.”
• “Man seems to have wanted… to give the universe his own gender…anything believed to have value belongs to men and is marked by their gender…he gives his own gender to God, to the sun.”
• ““Since women were basically seen as producers, the principals of control and protection applied to them throughout their productive period, whether as daughters, wives, or mothers. It is said when a woman outgrows the question, 'whose daughter is she?' people then ask, 'whose wife is she?' Only as matrons were women no longer valued in their sexual or reproductive capacity; matrons were, therefore, beyond control.”
• “A woman at this stage of her life no longer sought to be sexually attractive to men, and was no longer in sexual competition with other women. Matrons, in order to succeed economically and wield power, had to free themselves of 'messy' and 'demeaning' female domestic services, which included sexual services. Woman-to-woman marriage was one of the ways of achieving this. The younger wife would then take over the domestic duties.”
• “In the traditional society, a flexible gender system meant that male roles were open to certain categories of women through such practices as nhaye, 'male daughters,' igba ohu, 'female husbands. These institutions placed women in a more favourable position for the acquisition of wealth and formal political power and authority. Under colonialism, these indigenous institutions – condemned by the Church as 'pagan' and anti-Christian – were abandoned or reinterpreted to the detriment of women.”

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Wikidata facts

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