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