The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender DiscoursesOyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí1997-01-01articleProject Muse (Johns Hopkins University)1,510 citationsclosedNo readable copy stored yet — this record is metadata only.Postcolonial and Cultural Literary StudiesAfrican cultural and philosophical studiesFeminism, Gender, and IntersectionalityAbstractDESIREE MANICOM reviews The Invention of Women: Making African sense of Western Gender Discourses by OYERONKE OYEWUMICitations in this libraryStored only when both papers are in the corpus — 1,510 citations exist upstream.Cited by2011Tracking Epistemic Violence, Tracking Practices of Silencing2007Heterosexualism and the Colonial/Modern Gender System2018Epistemic Freedom in Africa2011Gender, health and theory: Conceptualizing the issue, in local and world perspective2004Gender As Social Institution2013From Patriarchy to Intersectionality: A Transnational Feminist Assessment of How Far We've Really Come2004Odious Comparisons: Incommensurability, the Case Study, and “Small N's” in Sociology2016The Coloniality of Gender