The author traces the misapplication of Western, body-oriented concepts of Gender through the history of Gender Discourses in Yoruba studies.
THE Invention OF WOMEN demonstrates that biology as a rationale for organizing the social world is a Western construction not applicable in Yoruban culture where social organization was determined by relative age..
The author traces the misapplication of Western, body-oriented concepts of Gender through the history of Gender Discourses in Yoruba studies