The Invention of Women. Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses.

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Oyeronke Oyewumi, University of Minnesota Press, USA, 1997

Considers the meaning of gender in an African context.

The “woman question,” this book asserts, is a Western one, and not a proper lens for viewing African society. Rethinking gender as a Western construction, Oyewumi offers a new way of understanding both Yoruban and Western cultures.

Winner of the American Sociological Association Sex & Gender Section’s 1998 « Distinguished Book Award. »