The Invention of Women

The Invention of Women
Author: Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 257
Release: 1997-10
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1452903255

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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.


The Invention of Women
Language: en
Pages: 257
Authors: Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997-10 - Publisher: U of Minnesota Press

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The Invention of Women
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Pages: 260
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