Female circumcision and the politics of knowledge: African women in imperialist discourses/ edited by Obioma Nnaemeka.
Material type: TextPublication details: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2005Description: viii, 288 p. ; 25 cmISBN: 0897898648 (alk . paper); 0897898656 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Female circumcision -- Africa | Human body -- Social aspects -- Africa | Africa -- Colonial influenceDDC classification: 392.1Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Books | Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section | 392.1 NNA/F (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | P22405 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The challenges of border-crossing: African women and transnational feminisms / Obioma Nnaemeka --
Imperialism and sex in Africa / Nawal El Saadawi --
African women, colonial discourses, and imperialist interventions: female circumcision as impetus / Obioma Nnaemeka --
Transcending the boundaries of power and imperialism: writing gender, constructing knowledge / Omofolabo Ajayi-Soyinka --
Out of Africa: "Our Bodies Ourselves"? / Vicki Kirby --
Women's rights, bodies, and identities: the limits of Universalism and the legal debate around excision in France / Francoise Lionnet --
"Other" bodies: Western feminism, race, and representation in female circumcision discourse / Chima Korieh --
Libidinal quicksand: imperial fictions, African femininity, and representation / Jude G. Akudinobi --
Confronting the Western gaze / Eloïse Brière --
The anti- female circumcision campaign deficit / L. Amede Obiora --
Colonial discourse and ethnographic residuals: the "female circumcision" debate and the politics of knowledge / Sondra Hale --
Parallax sightlines: Alice Walker's sisterhood and the key to dreams / Chimalum Nwankwo --
Overcoming willful blindness: building egalitarian multicultural women's coalitions / Ange-Marie Hancock.
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