What Gender is Motherhood? - E-book

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What Gender Is Motherhood? - ENG

Changing Yorùbá Ideals Of Power, Procreation, And Identity In The Age Of Modernity

Oyèrónk?? Oy?wùmí

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ISBN:	9781137521255
Formato:	Page Fidelity
Idioma:	Inglés
Editorial:	Springer Nature
Tema:	Ciencias sociales
Subtema:	Estudios de Género
Año de publicación:	2016-04-29

In this book, Oy?wùmí 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. Oy?wùmí 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, Oy?wùmí challenges us to look at the worlds we inhabit, anew.

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