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What gender is motherhood?: changing Yoruba ideas of power, procreation, and identity in the age of modernity

Part of the Gender and Cultural Studies in Africa and the Diaspora series
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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.

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Product Details
Palgrave Macmillan
1137521252 / 9781137521255
eBook (Adobe Pdf)
29/04/2016
England
English
259 pages
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