This week’s slidesHAP 08 — Gender
Read with the three histories in view. For each reading ask: what is the fact and its evidence (History 1); what theory turns the evidence into support (History 2); what conception had to be in place for the question to arise at all (History 3).
Readings
- Oyěwùmí, Oyèrónkẹ́. The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses. University of Minnesota Press, 1997.
- Sacks, Karen. Sisters and Wives: The Past and Future of Sexual Equality. University of Illinois Press, 1982.
- Sen, Amartya. “Equality of What?” The Tanner Lecture on Human Values, Stanford, 1979. — the lecture Cohen’s paper answers; open access. Cohen, G. A., “Equality of What? On Welfare, Goods and Capabilities,” Recherches Économiques de Louvain 56 (1990), is the reply, if you can obtain it.
- Okin, Susan Moller. “Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women?” Boston Review 22, Oct./Nov. 1997.
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Highlights of Women’s Earnings in 2024. (the wage-gap figures used in the slides)
Further reading
- Browne, Kingsley. Divided Labours: An Evolutionary View of Women at Work. Yale University Press, 1998.
- Amadiume, Ifi. Male Daughters, Female Husbands: Gender and Sex in an African Society. Zed Books, 1987.
- Bakare-Yusuf, Bibi. “‘Yorubas Don’t Do Gender’: A Critical Review of Oyeronke Oyewumi’s The Invention of Women.” African Identities 1(1), 2003. CODESRIA PDF, open access.
- Mikkola, Mari. “Feminist Perspectives on Sex and Gender.” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.