What Gender is Motherhood?: Changing Yorùbá Ideals of Power, Procreation, and Identity in the Age of Modernity by Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí

What Gender is Motherhood?: Changing Yorùbá Ideals of Power, Procreation, and Identity in the Age of Modernity

Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí

280 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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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, Oyewùmí explores the intersections...

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