Jumia Books Anatomy Of Female Power

Contrary to what many theorists (modern, postmodern, structuralist and poststructuralist, feminist and postfeminist) argue, Chinweizu claims that female power exists and operates mainly in marriage1 , but not on a large institutional scale, because there is no need: “female power does not need those elaborate structures of formal authority which have evolved to control the large aggregates of persons required by the specialist activities of the male domain” (Chinweizu, 1990, p.111). Thus, Chinweizu’s (1990) theory proves to be anti-feminist and bold, by trying to move away from the traditional conception of “uncontrollable” female to male submission. However, it is important to read this theory in another way, because despite the author constantly emphasizing that the position of “the power behind the throne” is a conscious position by women, this may just be the only form of “power” that is consented to them.