What Gender is Motherhood?

In this book, Oywm extends her path-breaking thesis that in Yorb society, construction of gender is a colonial development since the culture exhibited no gender divisions in its original form. Taking seriously indigenous modes and categories of knowledge, she applies her finding of a non-gendered ontology to the social institutions of If, motherhood, marriage, family and naming practices. Oywm insists that contemporary assertions of male dominance must be understood, in part, as the work of local intellectuals who took marching orders from Euro/American mentors and colleagues. In exposing the depth of the coloniality of power, Oywm challenges us to look at the worlds we inhabit, anew.