What gender is motherhood? changing Yorùbá ideas on power, procreation, and identity in the age of modernity / by Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí.

Author/creator Oyěwùmí, Oyèrónkẹ́
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Descriptionpages cm.
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SeriesGender and cultural studies in Africa and the diaspora
Gender and cultural studies in Africa and the diaspora. ^A1324918
Contents Introduction: Exhuming subjugated knowledge and liberating marginalized epistemes -- Divining knowledge: the man question in if? -- (Re)casting the Yorùbá world: Ifá, Ìyá and the signification of difference -- Matripotency: Ìyá in philosophical concempts and socio-policial institutions -- Writing and gendering the past: Akọ̀wé 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
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LCCN 2015023978
ISBN9781137538772 (alk. paper)

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