Title
The Invention Of Women: Making An African Sense Of Western Gender Discourses
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Considers The Meaning Of Gender In An African Context.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 Cultures.Author Oyeronke Oyewumi Reveals An Ideology Of Biological Determinism At The Heart Of Western Social Categoriesthe Idea That Biology Provides The Rationale For Organizing The Social World. And Yet, She Writes, The Concept Of Woman, 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.Oyewumi Traces The Misapplication Of Western, Bodyoriented Concepts Of Gender Through The History Of Gender Discourses In Yoruba Studies. Her Analysis Shows The Paradoxical Nature Of Two Fundamental Assumptions Of Feminist Theory: That Gender Is Socially Constructed And That The Subordination Of Women Is Universal. The Invention Of Women Demonstrates, To The Contrary, That Gender Was Not Constructed In Old Yoruba Society, And That Social Organization Was Determined By Relative Age.A Meticulous Historical And Epistemological Account Of An African Culture On Its Own Terms, This Book Makes A Persuasive Argument For A Cultural, Contextdependent Interpretation Of Social Reality. It Calls For A Reconception Of Gender Discourse And The Categories On Which Such Study Relies. More Than That, The Book Lays Bare The Hidden Assumptions In The Ways These Different Cultures Think. A Truly Comparative Sociology Of An African Culture And The Western Tradition, It Will Change The Way African Studies And Gender Studies Proceed.
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