| What Gender Is Motherhood?: Changing Yorùbá Ideals of Power, Procreation, and Identity in the Age of Modernity 2015 Edition Contributor(s): Oyěwùmí, Oyèrónkẹ́ (Author) |
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ISBN: 1137538775 ISBN-13: 9781137538772 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $94.99 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Customs & Traditions - Social Science | Women's Studies - Social Science | Gender Studies |
| Dewey: 306.874 |
| LCCN: 2015023978 |
| Series: Gender and Cultural Studies in Africa and the Diaspora |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (1.04 lbs) 262 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Topical - Family |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: There is significant religious and linguistic evidence that Yorùbá society was not gendered in its original form. In this follow-up to The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses, Oy?wùmí explores the intersections of gender, history, knowledge-making, and the role of intellectuals in the process. |