The 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 mis...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Minneapolis ; London
University of Minnesota Press
1997
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Corps humain - Aspect social - Nigeria
> Différences entre sexes
> Femmes yorouba - Conditions sociales
> Femmes yorouba - Histoire
> Joruba (volk)
> Philosophie yorouba
> Rôle selon le sexe - Nigeria
> Sekseverschillen
> Geschichte
> Geschlechtsunterschied
> Gesellschaft
> Human body
> Social aspects
> Philosophy, Yoruba
> Sex role
> Women, Yoruba
> History
> Social conditions
> Geschlechterrolle
> Soziale Situation
> Yoruba
> Frau
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | 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. Quelle: Klappentext. |
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| Beschreibung: | Hier auch die unveränderten Nachdrucke |
| Beschreibung: | xxiii, 229 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 0816624402 0-8166-2440-2 0816624410 0-8166-2441-0 |