The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses | Oyèrónk?? Oy?wùmí
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.
The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses |