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An Intimate Rebuke – Female Genital Power in Ritual and Politics in West Africa de Laura S. Grillo

An Intimate Rebuke – Female Genital Power in Ritual and Politics in West Africa: Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People

Autor Laura S. Grillo
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 dec 2018
In this ethnography of female empowerment, Laura S. Grillo offers new perspectives on how elder West African women deploy an ancient ritual in which they dance naked and slap their genitals and bare breasts to protest abuses of state power, globalization, witchcraft, rape, and other social dangers.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781478001553
ISBN-10: 1478001550
Pagini: 296
Ilustrații: 10 illus, incl. 4 in color
Dimensiuni: 152 x 228 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: MD – Duke University Press
Seria Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People

Cuprins

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
Part I. Home and the Unhomely: The Foundational Nature of Female Genital Power 19
1. Genies, Witches, and Women: Locating Female Powers 21
2. Matrifocal Morality: FGP and the Foundations of "Home" 54
3. Gender and Resistance: The "Strategic Essentialism" of FGP 81
Part II. Worldliness: FGP in the Making of Ethnicity, Alliance, and the War in Côte D'Ivoire 117
4. Founding Knowledge/Binding Power: The Moral Foundations of Ethnicity and Alliance 121
5. Women at the Checkpoint: Challenging the Forces of Civil War 152
Part III. Timeliness: Urgent Situations and Emergent Critiques 171
6. Violation and Deployment: FGP in Politics in Côte D'Ivoire 175
7. Memory, Memorialization, and Morality 198
Conclusion. An Intimate Rebuke: A Local Critique in the Global Postcolony 228
Notes 239
References 255
Index 275

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