The gendering discourse in the debates of religious orthodoxy

Abstract

After 1975, the International Women’s Year, discussions on gender and on women disempowerment have become the dominant discourse in different parts of the globe (Baxter 2003; Cornwall 2005). The dominant gender discourse in classical African studies concentrates on the socioeconomic and political status of "the disadvantaged women," overemphasizing the relations of dominance embedded in the principles of social organization that centers on patriarchy (Elinami 2010; Oyewumi 2011).