Gender Epistemologies in Africa: Gendering Traditions, Spaces, Social Institutions, and Identities

by Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí

This volume brings together a variety of studies that are engaged with notions of gender in different African localities, institutions and historical time periods. The objective is to expand empirical and theoretical studies that take seriously the idea that in order to understand gender and gender relations in Africa, we must start with Africa.

Genres: History, Feminism, Africa, Gender, Nonfiction, Philosophy, Politics

257 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 14, 2010

About the author

Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí is a Nigerian gender scholar and full professor of sociology at Stony Brook University. She acquired her bachelor's degree at the University of Ibadan in Ibadan, Nigeria and went on to pursue her graduate degree in Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley Her 1997 monograph, The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses, offers a postcolonial feminist critique of Western dominance in African studies.