The invention of women : making an African sense of Western gender discourses / Oyèrónkẹ ́Oyěwùmí.
"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 West...
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Language: | English |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
[1997], ©1997.
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxi, 229 pages) |
Format: | Electronic eBook |
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"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."--Jacket. |
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Note: | Electronic resource. |
Call Number: | DT515.45.Y67 O94 1997eb |
Bibliography Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780816685905 0816685908 9780816624416 0816624410 |
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Print version record. |