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 Info | New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. |
| Description | pages cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Gender 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 note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2015023978 |
| ISBN | 9781137538772 (alk. paper) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |