African Gender Studies
Subtitle: A Reader
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: August 6, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9781403962829
Subjects: Women's studies; Social conditions; Gender Studies; Social Science; Sociology; Africa; Africa - General; Social Science / Gender Studies; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; Sociology - General; Sex role; Women
First sentence: In the opening essay "Visualizing the Body: Western Theories and African subjects," Oyèrónké Oyèwùmi makes a case that the narrative of gendered corporeality that dominates Western interpretations of the social world is a cultural discourse and cannot be assumed uncritically for other cultures.