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What Gender is Motherhood? - Changing Yoruba Ideals of Power, Procreation, and Identity in the Age of Modernity (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015)
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What Gender is Motherhood? - Changing Yoruba Ideals of Power, Procreation, and Identity in the Age of Modernity (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015)
Series: Gender and Cultural Studies in Africa and the Diaspora
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In this book, Oyewumi extends her path-breaking thesis that in
Yoruba society, construction of gender is a colonial development
since the culture exhibited no gender divisions in its original
form. Taking seriously indigenous modes and categories of
knowledge, she applies her finding of a non-gendered ontology to
the social institutions of Ifa, motherhood, marriage, family and
naming practices. Oyewumi insists that contemporary assertions of
male dominance must be understood, in part, as the work of local
intellectuals who took marching orders from Euro/American mentors
and colleagues. In exposing the depth of the coloniality of power,
Oyewumi challenges us to look at the worlds we inhabit, anew.
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