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Paperback / softback. New. 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.
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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.
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- Title Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses
- Author Oyeronke Oyewumi
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Paperback
- Pages 256
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis
- Date 1997-10-01
- Features Bibliography, Index
- ISBN 9780816624416 / 0816624410
- Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 5.94 x 0.52 in (22.86 x 15.09 x 1.32 cm)
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Themes
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects Philosophy, Yoruba, Sex role - Nigeria
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97036162
- Dewey Decimal Code 305.488
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