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Autore |
Oyěwùmí Oyèrónkẹ́ |
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Titolo |
The invention of women : making an African sense of Western gender discourses / / Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí |
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Minneapolis : , : University of Minnesota Press, , 1997 |
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©1997 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xxi, 229 pages) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Human body - Social aspects - Nigeria |
Philosophy, Yoruba |
Sex role - Nigeria |
Women, Yoruba - History |
Women, Yoruba - Social conditions |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; 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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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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