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BL
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600300
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b429519
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| Main Entry
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Oyěwùmí, Oyèrónḳé
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| Title & Author
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What gender is motherhood? : : changing Yorùbá ideals of power, procreation, and identity in the age of modernity /\ Oyèrónḳé Oyěwùmí
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| Series Statement
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Gender and cultural studies in Africa and the diaspora
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1 online resource (xi, 262 pages).
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| ISBN
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9781137521255
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: 1137521252
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9781137538772
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1137538775
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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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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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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Motherhood-- Nigeria.
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Ifa (Religion)
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Gender identity-- Nigeria.
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Oyo (African people)
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| Dewey Classification
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306.874/308996333
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| LC Classification
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HQ759.O95 2016
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Ohio Library and Information Network.
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