| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 229 pages) |
|
data file |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| 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 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."--Jacket. |
| Access |
Concurrent user level: 1 user |
| Subject |
Women, Yoruba -- Social conditions.
|
|
Women, Yoruba -- Social conditions. |
|
Women, Yoruba. |
|
Women, Yoruba -- History.
|
|
History. |
|
Philosophy, Yoruba.
|
|
Philosophy, Yoruba. |
|
Sex role -- Nigeria.
|
|
Sex role. |
|
Nigeria. |
|
Human body -- Social aspects -- Nigeria.
|
|
Human body -- Social aspects. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
|
|
History.
|
| Subject |
Gender roles. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Oyěwùmí, Oyèrónkẹ́. Invention of women. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©1997 (DLC) 97036162 |
| ISBN |
9780816685905 (electronic book) |
|
0816685908 (electronic book) |
|
9780816624416 (pb ; alkaline paper) |
|
0816624410 (pb ; alkaline paper) |
|
0816624402 (hc ; alkaline paper) |
|
9780816624409 |
|
