TY  - BOOK
AU  - Oyěwùmí, Oyèrónkẹ́
TI  - The Invention of Women
SN  - 9780816624416
PY  - 1997///
PB  - U of Minnesota Press
N2  - 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
ER  -