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An Intimate Rebuke: Female Genital Power in Ritual and Politics in West Africa
xi, 284 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : 24 cm · 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
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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 · Religion · Côte d'Ivoire · women · body · rituals