Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses Durk Dehner re-examine some of our favorite

re-examine some of our favorite characters

The Woman Who Rides Like a Man

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their mother's prophecy begins to unfold

Alexis De Veaux is a black queer feminist independent scholar whose internationally known work is published in six languages

Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses Durk Dehner re-examine some of our favoriteThe "woman question," this book asserts, is a Western one, and not a proper lens for viewing African society. A work that rethinks gender as a Western contruction, The Invention of Women offers a new way of understanding both Yoruban and Western cultures. Oyewumi traces the misapplication of Western, body oriented concepts of gender through the history of gender discourses in Yoruba studies. Her analysis shows the paradoxical nature of two fundamental