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Autore: | Oyewumi Oyeronke |
Titolo: | The invention of women : making an African sense of Western gender discourses / / Oyeronke Oyewumi |
Pubblicazione: | Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1997 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
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: | 9780816685905 |
0-8166-8590-8 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910807316503321 |
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