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(Paperback)
By: Oyeronke Oyewumi
ISBN: 9780816624416
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 1997
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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The author traces the misapplication of Western, body-oriented concepts of gender through the history of gender discourses in Yoruba studies. THE INVENTION OF WOMEN demonstrates that biology as a rationale for organizing the social world is a Western construction not applicable in Yoruban culture where social organization was determined by relative age.
