Female Circumcision and the Politics of Knowledge African Women in Imperialist Discourses

Name: Female Circumcision and the Politics of Knowledge African Women in Imperialist Discourses
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ISBN: 9780897898652

ISBN-10: 0897898656

ISBN-13: 9780897898652

Edition: 2005

Authors: Obioma Nnaemeka

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Heated debates about and insurgencies against female circumcision are symptoms of a disease emanating from a mindset that produced hierarchies of humans, conquered colonies, and built empires. The loss of colonies and empires does not in any way mitigate the ideological underpinnings of empire-building and the knowledge construction that subtends it. The mindset finds its articulation at points of coalescence. Female circumcision provided a point of coalescence and impetus for the articulation. Insisting that the hierarchy on which the imperialist project rests is not bipolar but multi-layered and more complex, the contributions show how imperialist discourses complicate issues of gender,…

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List price: $45.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Publication date: 7/30/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.62" tall
Weight: 0.924
Language: English



The challenges of border-crossing : African women and transnational feminisms



Imperialism and sex in Africa



African women, colonial discourses, and imperialist interventions : female circumcision as impetus



Transcending the boundaries of power and imperialism : writing gender, constructing knowledge



Out of Africa : "our bodies ourselves?"



Women's rights, bodies, and identities : the limits of universalism and the legal debate around excision in France



"Other" bodies : western feminism, race, and representation in female circumcision discourse



Libidinal quicksand : imperial fictions, African femininity, and representation



Confronting the western gaze



The anti-female circumcision campaign deficit



Colonial discourse and ethnographic residuals : the "female circumcision" debate and the politics of knowledge



Parallax sightlines : Alice Walker's sisterhood and the key to dreams