The Passive Origin of the Institutionalization of Power Inequality in the Meaning/Experience of Womanhood in Igboland

This study, which analyzes the meaning and experience of womanhood in Igbo land, reveals a power inequality, captured by the depiction of women as the property of men. Though most of the intuitions found in post-structuralism might be confirmed in our analysis (e.g., that discourse produces the subj...

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Main Author: Dominic Ekweariri
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Sociology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fsoc.2020.00008/full