Die Erfindung der Frau: Westliche Geschlechterdiskurse aus afrikanischer Sicht verstehen

Author/Contributor(s):	Oyewumi, Oyeronke
Publisher:	University of Minnesota Press
Date:	10/01/1997
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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.