Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses Oyewumi Oyeronke
Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses Oyewumi Oyeronke The OC woman question, OCO this book asserts, is a Western one, and not a proper lens for viewing African…
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Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses Oyewumi Oyeronke
The OC woman question, OCO this book asserts, is a Western one, and not a proper lens for viewing African society. Author Oyeronke Oyewumi reveals an ideology of biological determinism at the heart of Western social categories-the idea that biology provides the rationale for organizing the social world. A work that rethinks gender as a Western construction, 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. And yet, she writes, the concept of OC woman, OCO central to this ideology and to Western gender discourses, simply did not exist in Yorubaland, where the body was not the basis of social roles. Her analysis shows the paradoxical nature of two fundamental assumptions of feminist theory: that gender is
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