| 书目名称 | What Gender is Motherhood? |
| 副标题 | Changing Yorùbá Idea |
| 编辑 | Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí |
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| 概述 | Demonstrates that there is significant religious and linguistic evidence that Yorùbá society was not gendered in its original form.Serves as a follow-up to The Invention of Women: Making an African Se |
| 丛书名称 | Gender and Cultural Studies in Africa and the Diaspora |
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| 描述 | .In this book, Oyěwùmí extends her path-breaking thesis that in Yorùbá society, construction of gender is a colonial development since the culture exhibited no gender divisions in its original form. Taking seriously indigenous modes and categories of knowledge, she applies her finding of a non-gendered ontology to the social institutions of Ifá, motherhood, marriage, family and naming practices. Oyěwùmí insists that contemporary assertions of male dominance must be understood, in part, as the work of local intellectuals who took marching orders from Euro/American mentors and colleagues. In exposing the depth of the coloniality of power, Oyěwùmí challenges us to look at the worlds we inhabit, anew.. |
| 出版日期 | Book 2016 |
| 关键词 | Gender; Motherhood; Feminism; Yoruba; Africa; Coloniality; Knowledge; Modernity; culture; feminism; gender; ide |
| 版次 | 1 |
| doi | https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137521255 |
| isbn_softcover | 978-1-349-58051-4 |
| isbn_ebook | 978-1-137-52125-5Series ISSN 2946-3793 Series E-ISSN 2946-3807 |
| issn_series | 2946-3793 |
| copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016 |
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