An Intimate Rebuke Female Genital Power in Ritual and Politics in West Africa / Laura S. Grillo.
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TextSeries: The religious cultures of African and African diaspora peoplePublisher: Duke University Press, Manufacturer: Project MUSE, Description: 1 online resource (pages cm)ISBN: 9781478002635Subject(s): Côte d'Ivoire -- Religion | Generative organs, Female -- Political aspects -- Côte d'Ivoire | Generative organs, Female -- Religious aspects | Generative organs, Female -- Symbolic aspects -- Côte d'Ivoire | Older women -- Political activity -- Côte d'Ivoire | Older women -- Religious life -- Côte d'IvoireGenre/Form: Electronic books. Additional physical formats: Online version:: Intimate rebukeDDC classification: 305.4096668 LOC classification: BL2470.C85 | G75 2018Online resources: Full text available: | Item type | Current library | Call number | URL | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 -- 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 -- 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.
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