| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 229 pages) |
| 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 |
| Summary |
"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." "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."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Women, Yoruba -- Social conditions
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Women, Yoruba -- History
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Philosophy, Yoruba.
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Sex role -- Nigeria
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Human body -- Social aspects -- Nigeria
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Sex differences.
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Sex Characteristics
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Nigeria.
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gender relations.
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Yoruba.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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Sex differences
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Human body -- Social aspects
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Philosophy, Yoruba
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Sex role
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Women, Yoruba
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Women, Yoruba -- Social conditions
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Frau
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Geschlechterrolle
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Soziale Situation
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Yoruba
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Sekseverschillen.
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Joruba (volk)
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Nigeria
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Nigeria
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Yoruba.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780816685905 |
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0816685908 |
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9780816624416 |
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0816624410 |
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