ओयेरोंके ओयेवुमी

कृतियाँ

• 1997द इन्वेंशन ऑफ़ वूमन

  ओयेवुमी तर्क देती हैं कि योरूबा समाज में सामाजिक जीवन जेंडर से नहीं, वरिष्ठता से संगठित था, और “स्त्री” श्रेणी उपनिवेशवाद और पश्चिमी विद्वत्ता के साथ आई – एक बहुत बहस वाली थीसिस।

मत

In “The Invention of Women” Oyěwùmí argues that pre-colonial Yoruba society was organised mainly by seniority – relative age – rather than gender. Yoruba pronouns and kinship terms do not mark sex, and social roles were not tied to anatomy. Western thought, by contrast, practises “body-reasoning”: it reads social position from the visible body. Colonial rule and Western scholarship, feminist scholarship included, imposed this logic and created “woman” as a subordinated category. She calls instead for concepts drawn from African ways of life. Her thesis shaped decolonial feminism, including María Lugones’ idea of the coloniality of gender, but is disputed: Bibi Bakare-Yusuf, among others, criticised her readings of language and historical evidence.

जीवन और संदर्भ

Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí is a Nigerian sociologist of Yoruba background. She studied at the University of Ibadan and earned her doctorate in sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. She has taught for many years at Stony Brook University in New York, working on gender, African societies and the sociology of knowledge, and has edited volumes on African women and gender studies.

अन्य प्रमुख कृतियाँ

• The Invention of Women (1997)
• African Women and Feminism (ed., 2003)
• African Gender Studies: A Reader (ed., 2005)
• What Gender Is Motherhood? (2016)

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