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Overview"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." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Oyeronke OyewumiPublisher: University of Minnesota Press Imprint: University of Minnesota Press Dimensions: Width: 14.90cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.520kg ISBN: 9780816624409ISBN 10: 0816624402 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 05 November 1997 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: Out of stock Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |