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245	0	0	_aFemale circumcision and the politics of knowledge: African women in imperialist discourses/ _cedited by Obioma Nnaemeka.
260			_aWestport, Conn. : _bPraeger, _c2005.
300			_aviii, 288 p. ; _c25 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505			_aThe 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.
650		0	_aFemale circumcision _zAfrica.
650		0	_aHuman body _xSocial aspects _zAfrica.
651		0	_aAfrica _xColonial influence.
700	1		_aNnaemeka, Obioma, ed.
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