Female circumcision and the politics of knowledge: African women in imperialist discourses/ 
edited by Obioma Nnaemeka. 
 - Westport, Conn. :  Praeger,  2005. 
 - viii, 288 p. ;  25 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>The challenges of border-crossing: African women and transnational feminisms / Obioma Nnaemeka --<br/>Imperialism and sex in Africa / Nawal El Saadawi --<br/>African women, colonial discourses, and imperialist interventions: female circumcision as impetus / Obioma Nnaemeka --<br/>Transcending the boundaries of power and imperialism: writing gender, constructing knowledge / Omofolabo Ajayi-Soyinka --<br/>Out of Africa: "Our Bodies Ourselves"? / Vicki Kirby --<br/>Women's rights, bodies, and identities: the limits of Universalism and the legal debate around excision in France / Francoise Lionnet --<br/>"Other" bodies: Western feminism, race, and representation in female circumcision discourse / Chima Korieh --<br/>Libidinal quicksand: imperial fictions, African femininity, and representation / Jude G. Akudinobi --<br/>Confronting the Western gaze / Eloïse Brière --<br/>The anti- female circumcision campaign deficit / L. Amede Obiora --<br/>Colonial discourse and ethnographic residuals: the "female circumcision" debate and the politics of knowledge / Sondra Hale --<br/>Parallax sightlines: Alice Walker's sisterhood and the key to dreams / Chimalum Nwankwo --<br/>Overcoming willful blindness: building egalitarian multicultural women's coalitions / Ange-Marie Hancock. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0897898648 (alk . paper) 0897898656 (pbk. : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Female circumcision--Africa.<br/>Human body--Social aspects--Africa.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Africa--Colonial influence.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>392.1  / NNA/F