An edition of The invention of women (1997)

Invention of Women

Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses

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Invention of Women
Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí, Oyèr ...
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An edition of The invention of women (1997)

Invention of Women

Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses

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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.

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Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses
1997, University of Minnesota Press
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The invention of women: making an African sense of Western gender discourses
1997, University of Minnesota Press
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