奥耶隆克·奥耶乌米

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奥耶隆克·奥耶乌米

约1957年年生

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她主张，在殖民主义之前，约鲁巴社会是按年龄而不是按性别来安排秩序的——而女人这个范畴是西方关于身体的思维强加的。

定位

非洲与非洲裔哲学 · 撒哈拉以南非洲 · 社会与历史, 认识论, 性别与女性主义

尼日利亚社会学家：《女人的发明》论证，前殖民时期的约鲁巴社会是按年资而不是按性别组织的——西方的“身体推理”强加了“女人”这一范畴。

核心思想

女人的发明
年资而非性别
对西方身体推理的批判

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影响

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玛丽亚·卢戈内斯

影响了
Lugones drew on Oyěwùmí’s thesis that precolonial Yoruba society was not organised by gender to argue colonialism imposed a gender system (‘Heterosexualism and the Colonial/Modern Gender System’, 2007). M. Lugones, “Heterosexualism and the Colonial/Modern Gender System”, Hypatia 22 (2007); O. Oyěwùmí, The Invention of Women (1997)
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玛丽亚·卢戈内斯 › 1944–2020

作品

1997女性的发明
奥耶乌米论证，在约鲁巴社会中，组织社会生活的是辈分而不是性别，而“女人”这一范畴是随着殖民主义和西方学术而到来的——一个争议很大的论点。

立场

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.

生平与背景

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.