The gender and the relationship with the body forom the Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí: a apresentation of The Invention of women
This research aims to present the work The invention of women: building an African sense for western gender discourses (1997) by the Yoruba thinker Oyèrónkẹ Oyěwùmí. Demonstrating the epistemological roots of the concepts of cosmovision and cosmoperception, as this is the investigation that begins The invention of women, to then discuss the ethical developments of these concepts. The first chapter exposes how the author thought about the colonial ballast and how the cosmovision is related to this western-centric praxis, passing through the exhibition of how the western-centric bio-logic that sees the body as a social base. It is also exposed how pre-colonial Yoruba society was organized from the cosmoperceptive principle, in line with the comparison proposed by Oyěwùmí. In the second chapter, the cosmoperceptive structure is approached, discussing how the relationality present in seniority would establish a non-embodied relationship and, consequently, non-gendering of bodies. This conceptual exposition makes it possible, conclusively, to point out ways to think about what an embodied body and a non-embodied body are.