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Oyeronke oyewumi is an associate professor of sociology at state university of new york at stony brook. 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. A journal of culture and african women studies issn. Oyewumis study is concentrated in the yoruba in western nigeria. Oyeronk oyewumi is a nigerian gender scholar and full professor of sociology at stony brook. Pdf on jan 2, 2018, mara viveros vigoya and others published oyewumi, oyeronk 2017. A work that rethinks gender as a western construction, the invention of women offers a new way of understanding both yoruban and western cultures. Pdf this paper questions oyeronke oyewumis 1997 claim in her thoughtprovoking work, the.
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