Description: What Gender Is Motherhood? : Changing Yoru'ba' Ideals of Power, Procreation, and Identity in the Age of Modernity, Hardcover by Oyewumi, Oyeronke, ISBN 1137538775, ISBN-13 9781137538772, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US In this book, Oyewùmí extends her path-breaking thesis that in Yorùbá 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 Ifá, motherhood, marriage, family and naming practices. Oyewùmí 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, Oyewùmí challenges us to look at the worlds we inhabit, anew.
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Book Title: What Gender Is Motherhood? : Changing Yoru'ba' Ideals of Power, P
Number of Pages: Xiii, 262 Pages
Publication Name: What Gender Is Motherhood? : Changing Yoruba Ideals of Power, Procreation, and Identity in the Age of Modernity
Language: English
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Item Height: 0.7 in
Subject: Media Studies, Sociology / General, Gender Studies, Parenting / Motherhood, Ethnic & Tribal
Publication Year: 2015
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 159.9 Oz
Author: Oyeronke Oyewumi
Item Length: 8.5 in
Subject Area: Family & Relationships, Religion, Social Science
Item Width: 5.5 in
Series: Gender and Cultural Studies in Africa and the Diaspora Ser.
Format: Hardcover
