TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nnaemeka,Obioma,ed
TI  - Female circumcision and the politics of knowledge: African women in imperialist discourses
SN  - 0897898648 (alk . paper)
U1  - 392.1 
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Westport, Conn.
PB  - Praeger
KW  - Female circumcision
KW  - Africa
KW  - Human body
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Colonial influence
N1  - 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
ER  -