Grillo, Laura S.,  1956- <br/><br/>
An Intimate Rebuke  Female Genital Power in Ritual and Politics in West Africa  / 
Laura S. Grillo. 
 - 1 online resource (pages cm) 
 - The religious cultures of African and African diaspora people .
 - Religious cultures of African and African diaspora people. Book collections on Project MUSE. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> Open Access 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781478002635 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Generative organs, Female--Political aspects--Côte d'Ivoire.<br/>Generative organs, Female--Religious aspects.<br/>Generative organs, Female--Symbolic aspects--Côte d'Ivoire.<br/>Older women--Political activity--Côte d'Ivoire.<br/>Older women--Religious life--Côte d'Ivoire.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Côte d'Ivoire--Religion.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books. 
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BL2470.C85  / G75 2018 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>305.4096668