عنوان

What gender is motherhood? :

(Number (ISBN

1137521252

(Number (ISBN

9781137521255

Erroneous ISBN

1137538775

Erroneous ISBN

9781137538772

Number

b429519

Title Proper

What gender is motherhood? :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

changing Yorùbá ideals of power, procreation, and identity in the age of modernity /

First Statement of Responsibility

Oyèrónḳé Oyěwùmí

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (xi, 262 pages).

Series Title

Gender and cultural studies in Africa and the diaspora

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Text of Note

Introduction: Exhuming subjugated knowledge and liberating marginalized epistemes -- Divining knowledge: the man question in ifá? -- (Re)casting the Yorùbá world: Ifá, Ìyá and the signification of difference -- Matripotency: Ìyá in philosophical concepts and socio-policial institutions -- Writing and gendering the past: Aḳòwé and the endogenous production of history -- The gender dictaters: making gender attributions in religion and culture -- Towards a genealogy of gender, gendered names, and naming practices -- The poetry of weeping brides: the role and impact of marriage residence in the making of praise names -- Changing names: the roles of Christianity and Islam in making Yorùbá names kosher for the modern world -- Conclusion: Motherhood in the quest for social transformation

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Text of Note

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

Title

What gender is motherhood?.

International Standard Book Number

1137538775

Gender identity-- Nigeria.

Ifa (Religion)

Motherhood-- Nigeria.

Oyo (African people)

POL-- 038000

SOC-- 002010

SOC-- 022000

Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Oyěwùmí, Oyèrónḳé

Ohio Library and Information Network.

Date of Transaction

20180510015939.0

Cataloguing Rules (Descriptive Conventions))

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Electronic name

[Book]

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