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An Intimate Rebuke

Autor Laura S Grillo
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 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: 154 x 231 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Editura: Duke University Press

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