The invention of women
Book by Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí
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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 construction, The Invention of Women offers a new way of understanding both Yoruban and Western... Google Books
Originally published: 1997
Author: Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí
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A meticulous historical and epistemological account of an African culture on its own terms, this book makes a persuasive argument for a cultural, context- ...
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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 ...
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The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses ; Copyright Date · 1997 ; Edition · NED - New edition ; Pages · 256.
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A work that rethinks gender as a Western construction, The Invention of Women offers a new way of understanding both Yoruban and Western cultures. Author ...
A meticulous historical and epistemological account of an African culture on its own terms, this book makes a persuasive argument for a cultural, context- ...
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A work that rethinks gender as a Western construction, The Invention of Women offers a new way of understanding both Yoruban and Western cultures. Author ...
In her book Invention Of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses (1997), Nigerian scholar Oyeronke Oyewumi describes how the imposition ...
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The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourse by Oyeronke Oyewumi. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997, 240 pp., ...