The invention of women : making an African sense of Western gender discourses / / Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí

• Autore: Oyěwùmí Oyèrónkẹ́
• Pubblicazione: Minneapolis : , : University of Minnesota Press, , 1997; ©1997
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxi, 229 pages)
• Disciplina: 305.42; 305.48/896333
• Soggetto topico: Human body - Social aspects - Nigeria; Philosophy, Yoruba; Sex role - Nigeria; Women, Yoruba - History; Women, Yoruba - Social conditions
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The invention of women
• ISBN: 0-8166-8590-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910807316503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II