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- catalog abstract ""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.".
- catalog alternative "African sense of Western gender discourses".
- catalog contributor b10434309.
- catalog created "1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1997.".
- catalog description ""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.".
- catalog description "Ch. 1. Visualizing the Body: Western Theories and African Subjects -- Ch. 2. (Re)constituting the Cosmology and Sociocultural Institutions of Oyo-Yoruba -- Ch. 3. Making History, Creating Gender: The Invention of Men and Kings in the Writing of Oyo Oral Traditions -- Ch. 4. Colonizing Bodies and Minds: Gender and Colonialism -- Ch. 5. The Translation of Cultures: Engendering Yoruba Language, Orature, and World-Sense.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-222) and index.".
- catalog extent "xxiii, 229 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0816624402 (hc : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0816624410 (pb : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press,".
- catalog spatial "Nigeria.".
- catalog subject "305.48/896333 21".
- catalog subject "DT515.45.Y67 O94 1997".
- catalog subject "Human body Social aspects Nigeria.".
- catalog subject "Philosophy, Yoruba.".
- catalog subject "Sex role Nigeria.".
- catalog subject "Women, Yoruba History.".
- catalog subject "Women, Yoruba Social conditions.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Ch. 1. Visualizing the Body: Western Theories and African Subjects -- Ch. 2. (Re)constituting the Cosmology and Sociocultural Institutions of Oyo-Yoruba -- Ch. 3. Making History, Creating Gender: The Invention of Men and Kings in the Writing of Oyo Oral Traditions -- Ch. 4. Colonizing Bodies and Minds: Gender and Colonialism -- Ch. 5. The Translation of Cultures: Engendering Yoruba Language, Orature, and World-Sense.".
- catalog title "African sense of Western gender discourses".
- catalog title "The invention of women : making an African sense of Western gender discourses / Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".