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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Main Author: Oyěwùmí, Oyèrónkẹ́
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [1997], ©1997.
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Physical Description:1 online resource (xxi, 229 pages)
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505 0 |a Preface; Acknowledgments; A Note on Orthography; Chapter 1 Visualizing the Body: Western Theories and African Subjects; Chapter 2 (Re)constituting the Cosmology and Sociocultural Institutions of Oyo-Yorùbá; Chapter 3 Making History, Creating Gender: The Invention of Men and Kings in the Writing of Oyo Oral Traditions; Chapter 4 Colonizing Bodies and Minds: Gender and Colonialism; Chapter 5 The Translation of Cultures: Engendering Yorùbá Language, Orature, and World-Sense; Notes; Bibliography; Index. 
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