Male Daughters, Female Husbands

Western feminists are racist and never deal with the question of color in their writings; further, their portrayals of Third World women betray their class and cultural assumptions (Amadiume, 2-10). She found it amazing, in the 1970s, that anthropologists could "collapse the whole of Third World women into one book," and asserts that, since this is true, "surely British women will not require more than one book" (6). With such limitations in understanding, how could scholars ever probe the relationship between gender and power found in societies like that of southeastern Nigeria among the Igbo, both traditionally and during the modern era?

Although much work has been done to rectify this problem since Amadiume and others pointed it out, her book serves as an important milestone in the historiography of gender and West Africa.

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