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An Intimate Rebuke : Female Genital Power in Ritual and Politics in West Africa /

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Throughout West African societies, at times of social crises, postmenopausal women--the Mothers--make a ritual appeal to their innate moral authority. The seat of this power is the female genitalia. Wielding branches or pestles, they strip naked and slap their genitals and bare breasts to curse and...

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Main Author: Grillo, Laura S., 1956- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2018.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Religion.
Generative organs, Female > Religious aspects.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography.
Femmes âgees > Côte-d'Ivoire > Vie religieuse.
Femmes âgees > Activite politique > Côte-d'Ivoire.
Organes genitaux femelles > Aspect symbolique > Côte-d'Ivoire.
Organes genitaux femelles > Aspect religieux.
Organes genitaux femelles > Aspect politique > Côte-d'Ivoire.
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 > Political aspects > Côte d'Ivoire.
Côte d'Ivoire.
Côte d'Ivoire > Religion.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Genies, witches, and women : locating female powers
  • 2. Matrifocal morality : FGP and the foundation of "home"
  • 3. Gender and resistance : the "strategic essentialism" of FGP
  • 4. Founding knowledge/binding power : the moral foundations of ethnicity and alliance
  • 5. Women at the checkpoint : challenging the forces of civil war
  • 6. Violation and deployment : FGP in politics in Côte d'Ivoire
  • 7. Memory, memorialization, and morality
  • Conclusion : an intimate rebuke: a local critique in the global postcolony.

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