The Values and Usefulness of Same-Sex Marriages Among the Females in Igbo Culture in the Continuity of Lineage or Posterity

The Igbo world in Southeastern Nigeria, as a patriarchal society, believes in passing the family inheritance along the male line excluding the female. This sociocultural belief and practice leads to gender role problems, especially in the case of families with no children or male child who will inhe...

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Main Author: Evelyn Nwachukwu Urama
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2019-05-01
Series:SAGE Open
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244019850037