Amadiume shows how these flexible traditions have been gradually worn away by colonial and religious rules that forced people into a different conception of society.
Ifi Amadiume proposes a study of the Igbo people in Nigeria, revealing a world where being a “woman” wasn’t a fixed destiny. She introduces the pre-colonial society, in which women could play masculine roles as “male daughters” to save a family line, or as “female husbands” to build their own wealth and influence.
[Amadiume, I. (1987). Male Daughters, Female Husbands: Gender and Sex in an African Society. Bloomsbury Academic.]
Sources:
https://laindependent.cat/es/etiqueta/ifi-amadiume
https://books.google.it/books/about/Male_Daughters_Female_Husbands.html?id=XSAqAAAAYAAJ&redir_esc=y
