What Gender is Motherhood?: Changing Yorùbá Ideals of Power, Procreation, and Identity in the Age of Modernity

By Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí and Oyaeraonkaoe Oyeewaumai

Book Overview

In this book, Oyěw m extends her path-breaking thesis that in Yor b 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 If , motherhood, marriage, family and naming practices. Oyěw m 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, Oyěw m challenges us to look at the worlds we inhabit, anew.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349580511
• ISBN13: 9781349580514
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"