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What Gender is Motherhood? - Changing Yoruba Ideals of Power, Procreation, and Identity in the Age of Modernity (Paperback, 1st ed. 2016) Loot Price: R957
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What Gender is Motherhood? - Changing Yoruba Ideals of Power, Procreation, and Identity in the Age of Modernity (Paperback, 1st...

What Gender is Motherhood? - Changing Yoruba Ideals of Power, Procreation, and Identity in the Age of Modernity (Paperback, 1st ed. 2016)

Oyeronke Oyewumi

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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Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Gender and Cultural Studies in Africa and the Diaspora
Release date: December 2015
First published: 2016
Authors: Oyeronke Oyewumi
Dimensions: 216 x 140 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 262
Edition: 1st ed. 2016
ISBN-13: 978-1-349-58051-4
Categories: Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > General
LSN: 1-349-58051-1
Barcode: 9781349580514

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