The Invention of Women

Oyěwùmí, Oyèrónkẹ́

The Invention of Women - U of Minnesota Press 1997 - 229

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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