OYÈRÓNKẸ́ OYĚWÙMÍ:
PHILOSOPHICAL POTENCIES OF A REFLECTION
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7443/problemata.v10i2.49121Keywords:
African Studies, Gender, Epistemology, PoliticsAbstract
This article is based on a reading of the book “The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses” by Nigerian sociologist and epistemologist Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí, seeking at first to briefly reconstruct the author's argument in this book and then to list some ideas of philosophical interest present in her work. We will also discuss some criticisms directed to this first book by Oyěwùmí, arguing, from these elements of philosophical interest, with elements that enable possible answers from the author to such criticisms.
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______. Conceptualizing Gender: The Eurocentric Foundations of Feminist Concepts and the challenge of African Epistemologies. African Gender Scholarship: Concepts, Methodologies and Paradigms. CODESRIA Gender Series. Volume 1, Dakar: CODESRIA, 2004, p. 1-8.
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SEGATO, Rita. Género, política e hibridismo en la transnacionalización de la cultura Yoruba. Estudos Afro-Asiáticos, Ano 25, no 2, 2003, p. 333-363.
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BAKARE-YUSUF, Bibi. ‘Yorubas don’t do gender’: a critical review of Oyeronke Oyewumi’s The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses. In: VVAA. African Gender Scholarship: Concepts, Methodologies and Paradigms. CODESRIA Gender Series. Dakar: CODESRIA, 2004, p. 61-81.
BUTLER, Judith. Problemas de gênero. Feminismo e subversão da identidade. Rio de Janeiro: Civilização Brasileira, 2003.
COETZEE, Azille. African feminism as decolonising force: a philosophical exploration of the work of Oyèrónké Oyěwùmí. Tese (Doutorado em Filosofia). Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Cidade do Cabo: Stellenbosch University, 2017.
______. Feminism is African, and other implications of reading Oyèrónké Oyěwùmí as a relational thinker. Gender and Women’s Studies, 2018, 1(1), p. 1-16.
GORDON, Lewis. Black Issues in Philosophy: The African Decolonial Thought of Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí. Blog of the APA (American Philosophical Association). 2018. Disponível em: https://blog.apaonline.org/2018/03/23/black-issues-in-philosophy-the-africandecolonial-thought-of-oyeronke-oyewumi/. Acesso em 14/05/2019.
IDOWU, E. Bolaji. Olodumare: God in Yoruba Belief. Londres: Longman, 1962.
KOROTAYEV, Andrey. Form of Marriage, Sexual Division of Labor, and Postmarital Residence in Cross-Cultural Perspective: A Reconsideration. Journal of Anthropological Research, 59(1), 2003, p. 69–89.
OYELEYE, Olayinka. Feminism(s) and Oppression: Rethinking Gender from a Yoruba Perspective. In: Afolayan, Adeshina; Falola, Toyin (eds.). The Palgrave Handbook of African Philosophy. Nova Iorque: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, p. 349-369.
OYĚWÙMÍ, Oyèrónkẹ́. The invention of women: making an African sense of western gender discourses. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997.
______. Conceptualizing Gender: The Eurocentric Foundations of Feminist Concepts and the challenge of African Epistemologies. African Gender Scholarship: Concepts, Methodologies and Paradigms. CODESRIA Gender Series. Volume 1, Dakar: CODESRIA, 2004, p. 1-8.
______. What Gender is Motherhood? Changing Yorùbá Ideals of Power, Procreation, and Identity in the Age of Modernity. Nova Iorque: Palgrave, 2016.
ROSSI, Alice S. Gender and Parenthood. American Sociological Review, Vol. 49, No. 1, Fev/1984, p. 1-19.
SARDUY, Aída Esther Bueno. El ocaso del liderazgo sacerdotal feminino en el Xangô de Recife. "La ciudad de las mujeres que no será". Tese (Doutorado em Antropologia Social). Madri: Universidade Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociología, 2014.
SEGATO, Rita. Género, política e hibridismo en la transnacionalización de la cultura Yoruba. Estudos Afro-Asiáticos, Ano 25, no 2, 2003, p. 333-363.
VIANNA FILHO, Luiz. O negro na Bahia: (Um ensaio clássico sobre a escravidão). Salvador: EdUFBA/FGM, 2008.
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