03084oam 2200649Ia 450 991078438440332120231020173047.00-8166-8590-8(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)99100000000034714219970801h19971997 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe invention of women making an African sense of Western gender discourses /Oyèrónkẹ́ OyěwùmíMinneapolis :University of Minnesota Press,1997.©19971 online resource (xxi, 229 pages)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; IndexThe "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.Human bodySocial aspectsNigeriaPhilosophy, YorubaSex roleNigeriaWomen, YorubaHistoryWomen, YorubaSocial conditionsHuman bodySocial aspectsPhilosophy, Yoruba.Sex roleWomen, YorubaHistory.Women, YorubaSocial conditions.305.42305.48/896333Oyěwùmí Oyèrónkẹ́1043790MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910784384403321The invention of women3854880UNINA