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An intimate rebuke : female genital power in ritual and politics in West Africa
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- Creator
- Laura S. Grillo
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Durham : Duke University Press, 2018
- ©2018
- Physical Details
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- xi, 284 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781478001553, 1478002638, 1478001208, 9781478002635, 9781478001201, 1478001550
- OCLC
- on1029070823, on1029098568
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Part I. Home and the unhomely: the foundational nature of female genital power -- Genies, witches, and women: locating female powers -- Matrifocal morality: FGP and the foundation of "home" -- Gender and resistance: the "strategic essentialism" of FGP -- Par t II. Worldliness: FGP in the making of ethnicity, alliance, and war in Côte d'Ivoire -- Founding knowledge/binding power: the moral foundations of ethnicity and Alliance -- Women at the checkpoint: challenging the forces of civil war -- Part III.Timeliness: urgent situations and emergent critiques -- Violation and deployment: FGP in politics in Côte d'Ivoire -- Memory, memorialization, and morality -- Conclusion. an intimate rebuke: a local critique in the global postcolony
Subjects
- Côte d'Ivoire -- Religion.
- Older women -- Religious life -- Côte d'Ivoire.
- Older women -- Political activity -- Côte d'Ivoire.
- Generative organs, Female -- Symbolic aspects -- Côte d'Ivoire.
- Generative organs, Female -- Religious aspects.
- Generative organs, Female -- Political aspects -- Côte d'Ivoire.