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Invention of Women : Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses
Overview
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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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780816624416
- ISBN-10: 0816624410
- Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
- Publish Date: October 1997
- Dimensions: 9 x 5.94 x 0.52 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.7 pounds
- Page Count: 256
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