The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses
ISBN-13:
9780816624416
ISBN-10:
0816624410
Edition:
First Edition
Author:
Oyeronke Oyewumi
Publication date:
1997
Publisher:
University of Minnesota Press
Format:
Paperback
256 pages
Category:
Linguistics
,
Words, Language & Grammar
,
Social Sciences
,
Women's Studies
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ISBN-13:
9780816624416
ISBN-10:
0816624410
Edition:
First Edition
Author:
Oyeronke Oyewumi
Publication date:
1997
Publisher:
University of Minnesota Press
Format:
Paperback
256 pages
Category:
Linguistics
,
Words, Language & Grammar
,
Social Sciences
,
Women's Studies
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The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses (ISBN-13: 9780816624416 and ISBN-10: 0816624410), written by authors
Oyeronke Oyewumi, was published by University of Minnesota Press in 1997.
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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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