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OYĚWÙMÍ, OYÈRÓNKẹ́

b. 1957

The Invention of Women (The Pronouns Field, Optional)

Oyěwùmí argues that gender as a Western analytic category was imposed on Yoruba society where seniority and other axes organized social life. The GAI's pronouns field is optional, free-text, and ungrouped. The institution does not assume the category applies. The applicant decides whether to use it, how, and against what background category. The schema declines to make the imposition mandatory.

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