Umfang:
xxiii, 229 Seiten.
ISBN:
0-8166-2440-2
,
0-8166-2441-0
Inhalt:
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 contruction, The Invention of Women offers a new way of understanding both Yoruban and Western cultures." "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 in old Yoruba society, and that social organization was determined by relative age. Quelle: Klappentext.
Anmerkung:
Hier auch die unveränderten Nachdrucke
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Ethnologie
,
Soziologie
Schlagwort(e):
Yoruba
;
Frau
;
Soziale Situation
;
Yoruba
;
Geschlechterrolle