03195nam 2200661Ia 450 991045740280332120200520144314.00-8166-8590-8(CKB)1000000000347142(EBL)310407(OCoLC)290518706(SSID)ssj0000280958(PQKBManifestationID)11222332(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000280958(PQKBWorkID)10300816(PQKB)11530917(MiAaPQ)EBC310407(MdBmJHUP)muse33440(Au-PeEL)EBL310407(CaPaEBR)ebr10151122(CaONFJC)MIL522546(EXLCZ)99100000000034714219970801d1997 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe invention of women[electronic resource] making an African sense of Western gender discourses /Oyèrónkẹ́ OyěwùmíMinneapolis University of Minnesota Pressc19971 online resource (256 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8166-2441-0 0-8166-2440-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.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; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; YThe "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 construction, The Invention of Women offers a new way of understanding both Yoruban and Western cultures. Author Oyeronke Oyewumi reveals an ideology of biological determinism at the heart of Western social categories-the idea that biology provides the rationale for organizing the social world. And yet, she writes, the concept of "woman," central to this ideology and to Western gender discourses, simply did not exist in Yorubaland, where tHuman bodySocial aspectsNigeriaPhilosophy, YorubaSex roleNigeriaWomen, YorubaHistoryWomen, YorubaSocial conditionsElectronic books.Human bodySocial aspectsPhilosophy, Yoruba.Sex roleWomen, YorubaHistory.Women, YorubaSocial conditions.305.42305.48/896333Oyěwùmí Oyèrónkẹ́1043790MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910457402803321The invention of women2469006UNINA