What Gender is Motherhood?
Changing Yorùbá Ideals of Power, Procreation, and Identity in the Age of Modernity
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Beschreibung
In this book, Oyěwùmí 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. Oyěwùmí 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, Oyěwùmí challenges us to look at the worlds we inhabit, anew.
Demonstrates that there is significant religious and linguistic evidence that Yorùbá society was not gendered in its original form Serves as a follow-up to The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses (1997) Explores the intersections of gender, history, knowledge-making, and the role of intellectuals in the process
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Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí
Themen in »What Gender is Motherhood?«
Gender Motherhood Feminism Yoruba Africa Coloniality Knowledge Modernity culture feminism gender identity Institution philosophy religion
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“Oyěwùmí continues to proffer formidable power-knowledge moves beyond gendered concepts of ‘woman’. She tasks us with radical, matripotent comprehensions of the institutions and practices of Ifá, motherhood, marriage, and family, as charted through Yorùbá categories of knowledge. Consequently, Oyěwùmí provides considerable contribution to critical feminist and womanist scholarship.” (Epifania A. Amoo-Adare, Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn, Germany)
“What Gender is Motherhood? is a beginning rather than an ending, as it poses an important challenge to feminist history and theory that projects the world in hegemonic ways. Oyěwùmí’s contemporary examples of the chilling effect, on scholarship, of widespread acceptance of a natural male-dominated ethos among the Yorùbá are disconcerting to say the least. Let's get thisbook out there and keep the discourse invigorated.” (Cheryl Johnson-Odim, Provost Emerita, Professor, History, Dominican University, USA)
“The central question asked in this book—‘what is the gender of motherhood?’—will set all readers thinking anew about sexuality, reproduction, and natality. Oyěwùmí’s original thinking about these issues will provoke reconsiderations of many axioms of knowing about the history of genders.” (Adélékè Adéẹ̀kọ́, Humanities Distinguished Professor, The Ohio State University, USA)
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