The invention of women [[electronic resource] ] : making an African sense of Western gender discourses / / Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí
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| Autore: |
Oyěwùmí Oyèrónkẹ́
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| Titolo: |
The invention of women [[electronic resource] ] : making an African sense of Western gender discourses / / Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí
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| Pubblicazione: | Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1997 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (256 p.) |
| 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 | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| 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; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y |
| 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 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 t |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The invention of women |
| ISBN: | 0-8166-8590-8 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910457402803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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