What Gender is Motherhood? : Changing Yorùbá Ideals of Power, Procreation, and Identity in the Age of Modernity / / by Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí

• Autore: Oyěwùmí Oyèrónkẹ́
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2016.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (XIII, 262 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.874/308996333
• Soggetto topico: Ethnology - Africa; Culture; Sex; Communication; Culture - Study and teaching; Race; Sociology; African Culture; Gender Studies; Media and Communication; Cultural Studies; Race and Ethnicity Studies
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: Exhuming subjugated knowledge and liberating marginalized epistemes -- Divining knowledge: the man question in if? -- (Re)casting the Yorùbá world: Ifá, Ìyá and the signification of difference -- Matripotency: Ìyá in philosophical concempts and socio-policial institutions -- Writing and gendering the past: Akọ̀wé and the endogenous production of history -- The gender dictaters: making gender attributions in religion and culture -- Towards a genealogy of gender, gendered names, and naming practices -- The poetry of weeping brides: the role and impact of marriage residence in the making of praise names -- Changing names: the roles of Christianity and Islam in making Yorùbá names kosher for the modern world -- Conclusion: Motherhood in the quest for social transformation.
• Sommario/riassunto: In this book, Oyěwùmí extends her path-breaking thesis that in Yorùbá society, construction of gender is a colonial development since the culture exhibited no gender divisions in its original form. Taking seriously indigenous modes and categories of knowledge, she applies her finding of a non-gendered ontology to the social institutions of Ifá, motherhood, marriage, family and naming practices. Oyěwùmí insists that contemporary assertions of male dominance must be understood, in part, as the work of local intellectuals who took marching orders from Euro/American mentors and colleagues. In exposing the depth of the coloniality of power, Oyěwùmí challenges us to look at the worlds we inhabit, anew.
• Titolo autorizzato: What Gender is Motherhood
• ISBN: 1-137-52125-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910255231603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Gender and Cultural Studies in Africa and the Diaspora