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Invention Of Women: Making An African Sense Of Western Gender Discourses
Oyeronke Oyewumi
Invention Of Women: Making An African Sense Of Western Gender Discourses
Oyeronke Oyewumi
The author traces the misapplication of Western, body-oriented concepts of gender through the history of gender discourses in Yoruba studies. THE INVENTION OF WOMEN demonstrates that biology as a rationale for organizing the social world is a Western construction not applicable in Yoruban culture where social organization was determined by relative age.
240 pages
Media | Boeken Paperback Book (Boek met zachte kaft en gelijmde rug) |
Vrijgegeven | 1 oktober 1997 |
ISBN13 | 9780816624416 |
Uitgevers | University of Minnesota Press |
Pagina's | 256 |
Afmetingen | 150 × 227 × 13 mm · 392 g |
Taal en grammatica | Engels |
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