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The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses

By Oyeronke Oyewumi

Book information

Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Year
1997
ISBN
0816624402, 9780816624409
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
14 MB (15052825 bytes)
Pages
229\256
Time added
2015-08-12 12:22:34

Description

The author traces the misapplication of Western, body-oriented concepts of gender through the history of gender discourses in Yoruba studies. THE INVENTION OF WOMEN demonstrates that biology as a rationale for organizing the social world is a Western construction not applicable in Yoruban culture where social organization was determined by relative age .

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