The invention of women
making an African sense of Western gender discourses
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Author
Publication
1997 - University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Language
English
Word Count
57,250 words, Guess
Page Count
229 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL689129M
- ISBN-100816624402
- OCLC Control Number290518706
- OCLC Control Number37457924
- OCLC Control Numberinventionofwomen00oyew
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number97036162
- Goodreads1161702
- LibraryThing490581
Classifications
- DDC305.48/896333
- LCCDT515.45.Y67 O94 1997
Description
The "woman question", this book asserts, is a Western one, and not a proper lens for viewing African society. A work that rethinks gender as a Western contruction, The Invention of Women offers a new way of understanding both Yoruban and Western cultures. Oyewumi traces the misapplication of Western, body-oriented concepts of gender through the history of gender discourses in Yoruba studies. Her analysis shows the paradoxical nature of two fundamental assumptions of feminist theory: that gender is socially constructed in old Yoruba society, and that social organization was determined by relative age.
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