LEADER 03084oam 2200649Ia 450 001 9910784384403321 005 20231020173047.0 010 $a0-8166-8590-8 035 $a(CKB)1000000000347142 035 $a(EBL)310407 035 $a(OCoLC)290518706 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000280958 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11222332 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000280958 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10300816 035 $a(PQKB)11530917 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC310407 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse33440 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL310407 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10151122 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL522546 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000347142 100 $a19970801h19971997 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe invention of women $emaking an African sense of Western gender discourses /$fOye?ro?nke?? Oye?wu?mi? 210 1$aMinneapolis :$cUniversity of Minnesota Press,$d1997. 210 4$dİ1997 215 $a1 online resource (xxi, 229 pages) 311 0 $a0-8166-2441-0 311 0 $a0-8166-2440-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents; 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-Yoru?ba?; 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 Yoru?ba? Language, Orature, and World-Sense; Notes; Bibliography; Index 330 $aThe "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. 606 $aHuman body$xSocial aspects$zNigeria 606 $aPhilosophy, Yoruba 606 $aSex role$zNigeria 606 $aWomen, Yoruba$xHistory 606 $aWomen, Yoruba$xSocial conditions 615 0$aHuman body$xSocial aspects 615 0$aPhilosophy, Yoruba. 615 0$aSex role 615 0$aWomen, Yoruba$xHistory. 615 0$aWomen, Yoruba$xSocial conditions. 676 $a305.42 676 $a305.48/896333 700 $aOye?wu?mi?$b Oye?ro?nke??$01043790 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910784384403321 996 $aThe invention of women$93854880 997 $aUNINA