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Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses
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.
Book Details
- Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
- Publish Date: Oct 1st, 1997
- Pages: 256
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 9.00in - 5.94in - 0.52in - 0.70lb
- EAN: 9780816624416
- Categories: • Women's Studies
About the Author
Oyeronke Oyewumi is assistant professor in the Department of Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.