Oyeronke Oyewumi
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 2945144 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Oyeronke Oyewumi |
| PRENOMES | Oyeronke |
| SOBRENOME | Oyewumi |
| ASSINATURA | OYEWUMI O |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 104 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1998 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Naming Africans
Names are not just creative linguistic expressions, they also constitute valuable sources of historical and ethnographic documentation.
Naming Africans
Toward a Genealogy of Gender, Gendered Names, and Naming Practices
The nineteenth century was a revolutionary period in Yorùbá history, producing great social changes that we are still trying to understand. The historical transformations that were to have this huge impact were documented by historian B. Agiri among others. They include: First, the disintegration of the old Ọ̀yọ́ Empire and the emergence of a new political order; second, the collapse of the maritime slave trade and the growth of new exports,... t…
Writing and Gendering the Past
I n the first two chapters of this book, I concentrated on the role of intellectuals in the explication of Ifá as both institution and social practice. Beginning in the middle of the nineteenth century, the first generations of literate Yorùbáá sought to document history and culture. It was within this group of what I call the “writing class” that the Yorùbáá language was “reduced” 1 to writing and the orthography developed. 2 It is important to …
African Gender Studies
(Re)Casting The Yorùbá World
In the previous chapter I focused on the writings of scholars who discuss different aspects of gender issues in Ifá, a Yorùbá knowledge and divination system. William Bascom and Wande Abimbola, the two main scholars that I interrogate extensively, did not set out consciously in their major works to make gender claims in the first instance. The gender statements they make are a by-product of their attempts to develop a comprehensive understanding …
Divining Knowledge
The primordial Yorùbá1 social organization was a seniority-based system. In the society, the main principle of social relations was seniority defined by relative age. Thus the older person in any social interaction or institutions that are deemed to be of older vintage are privileged in the culture. As an institution, seniority is socially constructed and chronological age is not its only feature. In other contexts, chronology is reckoned differe…
What Gender is Motherhood
In this book, Oyěwùmí extends her path-breaking thesis that in Yorùbá society, construction of gender is a colonial development since the culture exhibited no gender divisions in its original form. Ta
What Gender is Motherhood
In this book, Oyěwumi extends her path-breaking thesis that in Yoruba society, construction of gender is a colonial development since the culture exhibited no gender divisions in its original form. Taking seriously indigenous modes and categories of knowledge, she applies her finding of a non-gendered ontology to the social institutions of Ifa, motherhood, marriage, family and naming practices. Oyěwumi insists that contemporary assertions of male…
Gender Epistemologies in Africa
Introduction. Genderings O.Oyewumi Decolonizing the Intellectual and the Quotidian: Yoruba Scholars (hip) and Male Dominance O.Oyewumi Gender in Translation: Efunsetan Aniwura A.Adeeko Ode to Patriarchy: The Fine Line Between Praise and Criticism in a Popular Senegalese Poem M.Gueye Women and Leadership in Nigerian Islam: The Experience of Alhaja Sheidat Mujidat Adeoye of Osogbo D.O.Ogungbile Engendering Critical Spatial Literacy: Migrant Asante …
African Gender Studies A Reader
This is the first comprehensive reader that brings African experiences to bear on the ongoing global discussions of women, gender, and society. Bringing together the essential writing on this topic fr
Making History, Creating Gender
Of all the things that were produced in Africa during the colonial period— cash crops, states, and tribes, to name a few—history and tradition are the least acknowledged as products of the colonial situation. This does not mean that Africans did not have history before the white man came. Rather, I am making distinctions among the following: firstly, history as lived experience; secondly, history as a record of lived experience which is coded in …
Att begreppsliggöra genus
Conceptualizing gender: The Eurocentric foundations of feminist concepts and the challange of African epistemologies, by Oyeronke Oyewumi, PhD, Associate professor in sociology at Stony Brook University, USA. In her artide Oyewumi argues that the universal use of feminist concepts, developed primarily in North America and Europé, limits our understanding of the gender relations in non-western cultures. Western feminism has its foundations in the …
Family Bonds/Conceptual Binds
Women and Gender in African Studies
Making History, Creating Gender
Of all the things that were produced in Africa during the colonial period—cash crops, states, and tribes, to name a few—history and tradition are the least acknowledged as products of the colonial situation. This does not mean that Africans did not have history before the white man came. Rather, I am making distinctions among the following: firstly, history as lived experience; secondly, history as a record of lived experience which is coded in t…
The Invention of Women
De-Confounding Gender
Oyeronke Oyewumi argues against Mary Hawkesworth's claim that gender is a confounding variable in political and social analysis. Oyewumi contends that Hawkesworth's approach universalizes a Western understanding of gender, imposing it on cultures where it may not be relevant. Drawing on Yoruba culture, Oyewumi demonstrates how social categories and power dynamics can be understood without resorting to the concept of gender as a primary analytical…
The Invention of Women
Family Bonds/Conceptual Binds
De-Confounding Gender
Oyeronke Oyewumi argues against Mary Hawkesworth's claim that gender is a confounding variable in political and social analysis. Oyewumi contends that Hawkesworth's approach universalizes a Western understanding of gender, imposing it on cultures where it may not be relevant. Drawing on Yoruba culture, Oyewumi demonstrates how social categories and power dynamics can be understood without resorting to the concept of gender as a primary analytical…
Women and Gender in African Studies
Making History, Creating Gender
Of all the things that were produced in Africa during the colonial period—cash crops, states, and tribes, to name a few—history and tradition are the least acknowledged as products of the colonial situation. This does not mean that Africans did not have history before the white man came. Rather, I am making distinctions among the following: firstly, history as lived experience; secondly, history as a record of lived experience which is coded in t…
The Invention of Women
De-Confounding Gender
Oyeronke Oyewumi argues against Mary Hawkesworth's claim that gender is a confounding variable in political and social analysis. Oyewumi contends that Hawkesworth's approach universalizes a Western understanding of gender, imposing it on cultures where it may not be relevant. Drawing on Yoruba culture, Oyewumi demonstrates how social categories and power dynamics can be understood without resorting to the concept of gender as a primary analytical…
Women and Gender in African Studies
Family Bonds/Conceptual Binds
African Gender Studies A Reader
This is the first comprehensive reader that brings African experiences to bear on the ongoing global discussions of women, gender, and society. Bringing together the essential writing on this topic fr
Making History, Creating Gender
Of all the things that were produced in Africa during the colonial period— cash crops, states, and tribes, to name a few—history and tradition are the least acknowledged as products of the colonial situation. This does not mean that Africans did not have history before the white man came. Rather, I am making distinctions among the following: firstly, history as lived experience; secondly, history as a record of lived experience which is coded in …
Att begreppsliggöra genus
Conceptualizing gender: The Eurocentric foundations of feminist concepts and the challange of African epistemologies, by Oyeronke Oyewumi, PhD, Associate professor in sociology at Stony Brook University, USA. In her artide Oyewumi argues that the universal use of feminist concepts, developed primarily in North America and Europé, limits our understanding of the gender relations in non-western cultures. Western feminism has its foundations in the …
Gender Epistemologies in Africa
Introduction. Genderings O.Oyewumi Decolonizing the Intellectual and the Quotidian: Yoruba Scholars (hip) and Male Dominance O.Oyewumi Gender in Translation: Efunsetan Aniwura A.Adeeko Ode to Patriarchy: The Fine Line Between Praise and Criticism in a Popular Senegalese Poem M.Gueye Women and Leadership in Nigerian Islam: The Experience of Alhaja Sheidat Mujidat Adeoye of Osogbo D.O.Ogungbile Engendering Critical Spatial Literacy: Migrant Asante …
What Gender is Motherhood
In this book, Oyěwumi extends her path-breaking thesis that in Yoruba society, construction of gender is a colonial development since the culture exhibited no gender divisions in its original form. Taking seriously indigenous modes and categories of knowledge, she applies her finding of a non-gendered ontology to the social institutions of Ifa, motherhood, marriage, family and naming practices. Oyěwumi insists that contemporary assertions of male…
Toward a Genealogy of Gender, Gendered Names, and Naming Practices
The nineteenth century was a revolutionary period in Yorùbá history, producing great social changes that we are still trying to understand. The historical transformations that were to have this huge impact were documented by historian B. Agiri among others. They include: First, the disintegration of the old Ọ̀yọ́ Empire and the emergence of a new political order; second, the collapse of the maritime slave trade and the growth of new exports,... t…
Writing and Gendering the Past
I n the first two chapters of this book, I concentrated on the role of intellectuals in the explication of Ifá as both institution and social practice. Beginning in the middle of the nineteenth century, the first generations of literate Yorùbáá sought to document history and culture. It was within this group of what I call the “writing class” that the Yorùbáá language was “reduced” 1 to writing and the orthography developed. 2 It is important to …
African Gender Studies
(Re)Casting The Yorùbá World
In the previous chapter I focused on the writings of scholars who discuss different aspects of gender issues in Ifá, a Yorùbá knowledge and divination system. William Bascom and Wande Abimbola, the two main scholars that I interrogate extensively, did not set out consciously in their major works to make gender claims in the first instance. The gender statements they make are a by-product of their attempts to develop a comprehensive understanding …
Divining Knowledge
The primordial Yorùbá1 social organization was a seniority-based system. In the society, the main principle of social relations was seniority defined by relative age. Thus the older person in any social interaction or institutions that are deemed to be of older vintage are privileged in the culture. As an institution, seniority is socially constructed and chronological age is not its only feature. In other contexts, chronology is reckoned differe…
What Gender is Motherhood
In this book, Oyěwùmí extends her path-breaking thesis that in Yorùbá society, construction of gender is a colonial development since the culture exhibited no gender divisions in its original form. Ta
Naming Africans
Naming Africans
Names are not just creative linguistic expressions, they also constitute valuable sources of historical and ethnographic documentation.
Sociology (14 obras) · Gender Studies (10 obras) · African history and culture studies (7 obras) · Art (7 obras) · History (7 obras) · Political science (7 obras) · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues (6 obras) · Colonialism (5 obras) · Law (5 obras) · Aesthetics (4 obras)