Ìwà l’ẹwà: Towards a Yorùbá Feminist Ethics
This paper explores a narrative path towards foregrounding what it calls a gender-relative morality as a core dimension of female subordination. It takes a feminist approach to ethics, which stresses specifically the political enterprise of eradicating systems and structures of male domination and...
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This paper explores a narrative path towards foregrounding what it calls a gender-relative morality as a core dimension of female subordination. It takes a feminist approach to ethics, which stresses specifically the political enterprise of eradicating systems and structures of male domination and female subordination in both the public and the private domains. The theoretical implications of Feminist narrative ethics is then applied to the philosophical imports of Yorùbá proverbs about women as a way to tease out how female subordination is grounded in Yorùbá ontology and ethics. Spe[1]cifically, the essay interrogates the ethical and aesthetical trajectory that leads from ìwà l’ẹwà (character is beauty), a Yoruba moral dictum, to ìwà l’ẹwà obìnrin ([good moral] character is a woman’s beauty). Within this transition, there is the possibility that the woman is excluded from the category of those properly referred to as ọmọlúwàbí.
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| spelling | doaj-art-dc400407a07045bab8885ad695f82eb22025-02-07T13:45:41ZengLibraryPress@UFYoruba Studies Review2473-47132578-692X2021-12-0131Ìwà l’ẹwà: Towards a Yorùbá Feminist Ethics Olayinka Oyeleye 0University of Ibadan This paper explores a narrative path towards foregrounding what it calls a gender-relative morality as a core dimension of female subordination. It takes a feminist approach to ethics, which stresses specifically the political enterprise of eradicating systems and structures of male domination and female subordination in both the public and the private domains. The theoretical implications of Feminist narrative ethics is then applied to the philosophical imports of Yorùbá proverbs about women as a way to tease out how female subordination is grounded in Yorùbá ontology and ethics. Spe[1]cifically, the essay interrogates the ethical and aesthetical trajectory that leads from ìwà l’ẹwà (character is beauty), a Yoruba moral dictum, to ìwà l’ẹwà obìnrin ([good moral] character is a woman’s beauty). Within this transition, there is the possibility that the woman is excluded from the category of those properly referred to as ọmọlúwàbí. https://ojs.test.flvc.org/ysr/article/view/129931Ìwà l’ẹwà, Feminist ethics, Yoruba proverbs, Ọmọlúwàbí, Gender-relative morality |
| spellingShingle | Olayinka Oyeleye Ìwà l’ẹwà: Towards a Yorùbá Feminist Ethics Yoruba Studies Review Ìwà l’ẹwà, Feminist ethics, Yoruba proverbs, Ọmọlúwàbí, Gender-relative morality |
| title | Ìwà l’ẹwà: Towards a Yorùbá Feminist Ethics |
| title_full | Ìwà l’ẹwà: Towards a Yorùbá Feminist Ethics |
| title_fullStr | Ìwà l’ẹwà: Towards a Yorùbá Feminist Ethics |
| title_full_unstemmed | Ìwà l’ẹwà: Towards a Yorùbá Feminist Ethics |
| title_short | Ìwà l’ẹwà: Towards a Yorùbá Feminist Ethics |
| title_sort | iwa l ewa towards a yoruba feminist ethics |
| topic | Ìwà l’ẹwà, Feminist ethics, Yoruba proverbs, Ọmọlúwàbí, Gender-relative morality |
| url | https://ojs.test.flvc.org/ysr/article/view/129931 |
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