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Editor's Introduction

  1. Uwa Umu-Nwanyi: The World of Women, The World of Women's Children
  2. Nwando Achebe
  3. pp. v-xiv
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Articles

  1. In Search of the Historical Madam Suakoko: Liberia's Renowned Female Kpelle Chief
  2. Timothy D. L. Nevin
  3. pp. 1-38
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  1. Queer Crossings: Kinship, Marriage, and Sexuality in Igboland and Carriacou
  2. Andrew Apter
  3. pp. 39-66
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  1. Intellectual Housewives, Journalism, and Anglophone Nationalism in Cameroon, 1961–1972
  2. Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta Mougoué
  3. pp. 67-92
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Conversations

  1. Male Daughters, Female Husbands at Thirty
  2. Lisa A. Lindsay
  3. pp. 93-101
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  1. Understanding African Marriage and Family Relations from South Africa to the United States
  2. Leslie Anne Hadfield
  3. pp. 102-108
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  1. The Ambiguity of Gender: Ifi Amadiume and the Writing of Gender History in Igboland
  2. Marion G. Mendy, Assan Sarr
  3. pp. 109-116
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  1. When We Discovered Gender: A Retrospective on Ifi Amadiume's Male Daughters, Female Husbands: Gender and Sex in an African Society
  2. Lorelle Semley
  3. pp. 117-123
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  1. A Philosopher with a Plan: Reflections on Ifi Amadiume's Male Daughters, Female Husbands
  2. Abosede George
  3. pp. 124-130
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  1. Gender Field Experience, Method and Theory
  2. Ifi Amadiume
  3. pp. 131-138
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The Teaching Scholar

  1. Becoming Classic: "Sitting on a Man" at Forty-Five
  2. Judith A. Byfield
  3. pp. 139-145
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  1. "Sitting on a Man": Forty Years Later
  2. Akosua Adomako Ampofo
  3. pp. 146-155
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  1. Judith Van Allen, "Sitting on a Man," and the Foundation of Igbo Women's Studies
  2. Ndubueze L. Mbah
  3. pp. 156-165
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  1. Making It Ethical to Study Africa: The Enduring Legacies of "Sitting on a Man"
  2. Denise Walsh
  3. pp. 166-172
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  1. Man Sitting with Judith Van Allen
  2. Emily Lynn Osborn
  3. pp. 173-182
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  1. Judith Van Allen and the Impact of Her Article "'Sitting on a Man': Colonialism and the Lost Political Institutions of Igbo Women" in the Classroom
  2. Lynda R. Day
  3. pp. 183-189
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  1. Politics and the Writing of "Sitting on a Man"
  2. Judith Van Allen
  3. pp. 190-199
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Book Reviews

  1. Shi'i Cosmopolitanisms in Africa: Lebanese Migration and Religious Conversion in Senegal by Mara A. Leichtman (review)
  2. Shobana Shankar
  3. pp. 200-203
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  1. Africa and France: Postcolonial Cultures, Migration, and Racism by Dominic Thomas (review)
  2. Abou B. Bamba
  3. pp. 204-206
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  1. "Life Not Worth Living": Nigerian Petitions Reflecting an African Society's Experiences during World War II (African World Series) ed. by Chima J. Korieh (review)
  2. Oliver Coates
  3. pp. 207-210
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