The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses
Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí
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Argues that gender was not a central organising category in Yorùbá society before colonialism.
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Nigeria1929
Igbo and Ibibio women in south-eastern Nigeria rose against British colonial rule and its appointed warrant chiefs, fearing they were about to be taxed. Using the tradition of 'sitting on a man', thousands besieged officials; colonial troops killed more than fifty women.
Market women of Owerri and Calabar provinces.
No taxation of women; removal of corrupt warrant chiefs.
Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí
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Argues that gender was not a central organising category in Yorùbá society before colonialism.