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Author Oyěwùmí, Oyèrónḱẹ, author.
Title The invention of women : making an African sense of Western gender discourses / Oyèrónḱẹ Oyěwùmí.
Publication Info Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©1997.


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Contents Preface; Acknowledgments; A Note on Orthography; Chapter 1 Visualizing the Body: Western Theories and African Subjects; Chapter 2 (Re)constituting the Cosmology and Sociocultural Institutions of Oyo-Yorùbá; Chapter 3 Making History, Creating Gender: The Invention of Men and Kings in the Writing of Oyo Oral Traditions; Chapter 4 Colonizing Bodies and Minds: Gender and Colonialism; Chapter 5 The Translation of Cultures: Engendering Yorùbá Language, Orature, and World-Sense; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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Author Oyěwùmí, Oyèrónḱẹ, author.
Subject Human body -- Social aspects -- Nigeria.
Philosophy, Yoruba.
Sex role -- Nigeria.
Women, Yoruba -- History.
Women, Yoruba -- Social conditions.
Descript 1 online resource (xxi, 229 pages)
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Contents Preface; Acknowledgments; A Note on Orthography; Chapter 1 Visualizing the Body: Western Theories and African Subjects; Chapter 2 (Re)constituting the Cosmology and Sociocultural Institutions of Oyo-Yorùbá; Chapter 3 Making History, Creating Gender: The Invention of Men and Kings in the Writing of Oyo Oral Traditions; Chapter 4 Colonizing Bodies and Minds: Gender and Colonialism; Chapter 5 The Translation of Cultures: Engendering Yorùbá Language, Orature, and World-Sense; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
Note Unlimited number of concurrent users. UkHlHU
ISBN 9780816685905 (e-book)
0816685908 (e-book)
Author Oyěwùmí, Oyèrónḱẹ, author.
Subject Human body -- Social aspects -- Nigeria.
Philosophy, Yoruba.
Sex role -- Nigeria.
Women, Yoruba -- History.
Women, Yoruba -- Social conditions.

Subject Human body -- Social aspects -- Nigeria.
Philosophy, Yoruba.
Sex role -- Nigeria.
Women, Yoruba -- History.
Women, Yoruba -- Social conditions.
Descript 1 online resource (xxi, 229 pages)
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Contents Preface; Acknowledgments; A Note on Orthography; Chapter 1 Visualizing the Body: Western Theories and African Subjects; Chapter 2 (Re)constituting the Cosmology and Sociocultural Institutions of Oyo-Yorùbá; Chapter 3 Making History, Creating Gender: The Invention of Men and Kings in the Writing of Oyo Oral Traditions; Chapter 4 Colonizing Bodies and Minds: Gender and Colonialism; Chapter 5 The Translation of Cultures: Engendering Yorùbá Language, Orature, and World-Sense; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
Note Unlimited number of concurrent users. UkHlHU
ISBN 9780816685905 (e-book)
0816685908 (e-book)
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