What Gender Is Motherhood?
Changing Yorùbá Ideals of Power, Procreation, and Identity in the Age of Modernity
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ISBN-13:
9781137538772
Veröffentl:
2015
Erscheinungsdatum:
07.12.2015
Seiten:
262
Autor:
Oy&
Gewicht:
472 g
Format:
216x140x18 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
In this book, Oyewùmí 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. Oyewùmí 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, Oyewùmí 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
Introduction: Exhuming Subjugated Knowledge and Liberating Marginalized Epistemes 1. Divining knowledge: The Man Question in Ifá 2. (Re)Casting the Yorùbá World: Ifá, Ìyá and the Signification of Difference 3. Matripotency: Ìyá in Philosophical Concempts and Socio-Policial Institutions 4. Writing and Gendering the Past: Akwé and the Endogenous Production of History 5. The Gender Dictaters: Making Gender Attributions in Religion and Culture6. Towards a Genealogy of Gender, Gendered Names, and Naming Practices 7. The Poetry of Weeping Brides: The Role and Impact of Marriage Residence in the Making of Praise Names8. Changing Names: The Roles of Christianity and Islam in Making Yorùbá Names Kosher for the Modern WorldConclusion: Motherhood in the Quest for Social Transformation Glossary
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