What Gender is Motherhood?: Changing Yoru?ba? Ideals of Power, Procreation, and Identity in the Age of Modernity (Gender and Cultural Studies in Africa and the Diaspora)

There is significant religious and linguistic evidence that Yorùbá society was not gendered in its original form. In this follow-up to The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses, Oy?wùmí explores the intersections of gender, history, knowledge-making, and the role of intellectuals in the process.