The invention of women
About this book
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.
Subjects
- aspect social
- body, human
- conditions sociales
- corps humain
- différences entre sexes
- discrimination & race relations
- femmes yoruba
- frau
- gender relations
- geschlechterrolle
- histoire
- human body, social aspects
- joruba (volk)
- minority studies
- nigeria
- philosophie yoruba
- philosophy, african
- philosophy, yoruba
- rôle selon le sexe
- sekseverschillen
- sex characteristics
- sex differences
- social aspects of the human body
- social conditions
- social science
- soziale situation
- women, history
- women, nigeria
- women's studies
- women, yoruba
- yoruba
- yoruba language
- yoruba philosophy
- yoruba women