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What Gender is Motherhood?

Changing Yoruba Ideals of Power, Procreation, and Identity in the Age of Modernity. Gender and Cultural Studies in Africa and the Diaspora

By (author) Oyeronke Oyewumi
Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, United Kingdom
Published: 9th Dec 2015
Dimensions: w 126mm h 212mm d 18mm
Weight: 360g
ISBN-10: 1349580511
ISBN-13: 9781349580514
Barcode No: 9781349580514
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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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