Complementary Personhood and Gender: An Interrogation WithinAfrican Philosophy
In this paper, I argue for an Afro-communitarian account of personhood that considers the value of complementarity as a necessary part of human existence. The reason for conceptualizing personhood as a complementary enterprise is to dispel the understanding of gender that sustains gender inequality....
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| description | In this paper, I argue for an Afro-communitarian account of personhood that considers the value of complementarity as a necessary part of human existence. The reason for conceptualizing personhood as a complementary enterprise is to dispel the understanding of gender that sustains gender inequality. I aim to explore the logic that characterizes complementary personhood as a specific kind of Afro-communitarian personhood that can account for gender complementarity. I argue that the universalized idea of patriarchy and gender, as construed within Western feminist theorizing, cannot account for every society as these concepts differ from culture to culture. In this paper, I use complementary personhood as a lens through which a fluid understanding of gender and gender relations can be drawn against the backdrop of the hierarchy and binary opposition that undergird most Western interrogations of the concepts of gender and patriarchy. To do so, I present an overview of what complementary personhood entails. The preceding elucidation would become the basis for understanding the Afro-centric notion of gender relation. I then tease out an Afro-centric triangle of gender relations using the Ezumezu logical system as its background logic. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-00404e58276f4e4fbb0f3712e848e27b2024-02-03T08:52:11ZengConversational Society of Philosophy (CSP)Arụmarụka2788-79282023-07-0131109129https://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ajct.v3i1.6Complementary Personhood and Gender: An Interrogation WithinAfrican PhilosophyDiana Ekor OFANA0Decoloniality Research Group, University of Pretoria, South AfricaIn this paper, I argue for an Afro-communitarian account of personhood that considers the value of complementarity as a necessary part of human existence. The reason for conceptualizing personhood as a complementary enterprise is to dispel the understanding of gender that sustains gender inequality. I aim to explore the logic that characterizes complementary personhood as a specific kind of Afro-communitarian personhood that can account for gender complementarity. I argue that the universalized idea of patriarchy and gender, as construed within Western feminist theorizing, cannot account for every society as these concepts differ from culture to culture. In this paper, I use complementary personhood as a lens through which a fluid understanding of gender and gender relations can be drawn against the backdrop of the hierarchy and binary opposition that undergird most Western interrogations of the concepts of gender and patriarchy. To do so, I present an overview of what complementary personhood entails. The preceding elucidation would become the basis for understanding the Afro-centric notion of gender relation. I then tease out an Afro-centric triangle of gender relations using the Ezumezu logical system as its background logic.african philosophycomplementary personhoodgender relationsezumezu logic |
| spellingShingle | Diana Ekor OFANA Complementary Personhood and Gender: An Interrogation WithinAfrican Philosophy Arụmarụka african philosophy complementary personhood gender relations ezumezu logic |
| title | Complementary Personhood and Gender: An Interrogation WithinAfrican Philosophy |
| title_full | Complementary Personhood and Gender: An Interrogation WithinAfrican Philosophy |
| title_fullStr | Complementary Personhood and Gender: An Interrogation WithinAfrican Philosophy |
| title_full_unstemmed | Complementary Personhood and Gender: An Interrogation WithinAfrican Philosophy |
| title_short | Complementary Personhood and Gender: An Interrogation WithinAfrican Philosophy |
| title_sort | complementary personhood and gender an interrogation withinafrican philosophy |
| topic | african philosophy complementary personhood gender relations ezumezu logic |
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