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  • 1
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    Invention Of Women : Making An African Sense Of Western Gender Discourses (1997)
    Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780816685905
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (256 pages)
    DDC: 305.48896333
    RVK:
    MS 9622
    RVK:
    LB 44465
    RVK:
    MS 3000
    RVK:
    MS 2850
    Keywords: Yoruba ; Frau ; Geschlechterrolle ; Soziale Situation ; Nigeria
    Abstract: 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 categories-the 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, body-oriented 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, context-dependent 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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  • 2
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    The invention of women : making an African sense of western gender discourses (1997)
    Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press
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    ISBN: 9780816685905
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XXIII, 229 Seiten)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Oyěwùmí, Oyèrónké, 1957 - The invention of women
    DDC: 305.42
    RVK:
    LB 44529
    Keywords: Human body Social aspects ; Nigeria ; Women, Yoruba Social conditions ; Sex role Nigeria ; Philosophy, Yoruba ; Women, Yoruba History ; Yoruba ; Stamm ; Volk ; Frau ; Geschlechterrolle ; Kultur ; Wert ; Norm ; Kulturstandard ; Ethik ; Überlegenheit ; Abhängigkeit ; Verwestlichung ; Human body ; Social aspects ; Nigeria ; Philosophy, Yoruba ; Sex role ; Nigeria ; Women, Yoruba ; History ; Women, Yoruba ; Social conditions ; Electronic books ; Nigeria
    Abstract: The "woman question," this book asserts, is a Western one, and not a proper lens for viewing African society. Rethinking gender as a Western construction, Oyewumi offers a new way of understanding both Yoruban and Western cultures. Winner of the American Sociological Association Sex & Gender Section's 1998 "Distinguished Book Award.&quot
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 3
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    The invention of women : making an African sense of Western gender discourses (1997)
    Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press
    Details
    ISBN: 9780816624409
    Language: English
    Pages: xxi, 229 p
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.42
    RVK:
    LB 44465
    RVK:
    MS 3000
    RVK:
    MS 9622
    Keywords: Geschichte ; Gesellschaft ; Human body Social aspects ; Philosophy, Yoruba ; Sex role ; Women, Yoruba History ; Women, Yoruba Social conditions ; Geschlechterrolle ; Soziale Situation ; Yoruba ; Frau ; Yoruba ; Frau ; Soziale Situation ; Yoruba ; Geschlechterrolle
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 4
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    Adire : indigo textiles amongst the Yoruba (1996)
    Bayreuth : Arcadia-Filmproduktion
    Details
    Language: English , German
    Pages: 1 DVD-Video, 45 Min., farb. , 12 cm
    RVK:
    LB 94529
    Keywords: Indigo ; Kleidung ; Yoruba ; Färben ; Yoruba ; Kleidung ; Färben ; Indigo
    Note: Engl. und dt.
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  • 5
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    AV-Medium
    Adire : Indigo-Textilien der Yoruba (1996)
    Bayreuth : TMT Film-Fernsehen-Multimedia
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    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Videokassette (VHS, ca. 45 Min.)
    RVK:
    LB 94529
    Keywords: Kleidung ; Yoruba ; Färben ; Indigo ; Yoruba ; Kleidung ; Färben ; Indigo
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