{"product_id":"what-gender-is-motherhood-changing-yoruba-ideals-of-power-procreation-and-identity-in-the-age-of-modernity-paperback","title":"What Gender Is Motherhood?: Changing Yorùbá Ideals of Power, Procreation, and Identity in the Age of Modernity - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eOyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is significant religious and linguistic evidence that Yorùbá society was not gendered in its original form. In this follow-up to \u003cem\u003eThe Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses\u003c\/em\u003e, Oy?wùmí explores the intersections of gender, history, knowledge-making, and the role of intellectuals in the process.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is significant religious and linguistic evidence that Yoruba society was not gendered in its original form. In this follow-up to \u003cem\u003eThe Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses\u003c\/em\u003e, Oy?wumi explores the intersections of gender, history, knowledge-making, and the role of intellectuals in the process. She applies the finding of a non-gendered ontology to the institution of Ifa, the most important endogenous system of knowledge in Yoruba culture, and explores how gender is implicated in interpretations of the knowledge system, as social and ritual practice, and as a cultural institution in a changing world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of Sociology at SUNY Stony Brook, USA. She was born in Nigeria and educated at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, and the University of California at Berkeley, USA. Her monograph, \u003ci\u003eThe Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses\u003c\/i\u003e won the 1998 Distinguished Book Award of the Sex and Gender Section of the American Sociological Association, and was a finalist for the Herskovitts Prize of the African Studies Association in the same year.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 262\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.59 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 09, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51810969256224,"sku":"9781349580514","price":72.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/c47485530226ffe337c3a68b428a0f21.webp?v=1780999555","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/what-gender-is-motherhood-changing-yoruba-ideals-of-power-procreation-and-identity-in-the-age-of-modernity-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}