The Invention of Women

Released on by Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí
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  • The Invention of Women Book Detail

  • Author : Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí
  • Release Date : 1997-10
  • Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
  • Genre : Social Science
  • Pages : 257
  • ISBN 13 : 1452903255
  • File Size : 80,80 MB
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The Invention of Women by Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí PDF Summary

Book Description: 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.

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