An intimate rebuke : : female genital power in ritual and politics in Côte d'Ivoire / / Laura S. Grillo.
Throughout West African societies, at times of social crises, postmenopausal women — the Mothers — make a ritual appeal to their innate moral authority. The seat of this power is the female genitalia. Wielding branches or pestles, they strip naked and slap their genitals and bare breasts to curse an...
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Grillo, Laura S., 1956- author. An intimate rebuke : female genital power in ritual and politics in Côte d'Ivoire / Laura S. Grillo. Durham, NC Duke University Press 2018 Durham : Duke University Press, 2018. 1 online resource (305 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier The religious cultures of African and African diaspora people Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on print version record. Home and the unhomely: the foundational nature of female genital power -- Genies, witches, and women: locating female powers -- Matrifocal morality: FGP and the foundation of "home" -- Gender and resistance: the "strategic essentialism" of FGP -- Worldliness: FGP in the making of ethnicity, alliance, and war in Côte d'Ivoire -- Founding knowledge/binding power: the moral foundations of ethnicity and Alliance -- Women at the checkpoint: challenging the forces of civil war -- Timeliness: urgent situations and emergent critiques -- Violation and deployment: FGP in politics in Côte d'Ivoire -- Memory, memorialization, and morality -- Conclusion. an intimate rebuke: a local critique in the global postcolony. Throughout West African societies, at times of social crises, postmenopausal women — the Mothers — make a ritual appeal to their innate moral authority. The seat of this power is the female genitalia. Wielding branches or pestles, they strip naked and slap their genitals and bare breasts to curse and expel the forces of evil. In An Intimate Rebuke Laura S. Grillo draws on fieldwork in Côte d’Ivoire that spans three decades to illustrate how these rituals of Female Genital Power (FGP) constitute religious and political responses to abuses of power. When deployed in secret FGP operates as spiritual warfare against witchcraft; in public it serves as a political activism. During Côte d’Ivoire’s civil wars FGP challenged the immoral forces of both rebels and the state. Grillo shows how the ritual potency of the Mothers’ nudity and the conjuration of their sex embodies a moral power that has been foundational to West African civilization. English Knowledge Unlatched Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode Open access Unrestricted online access star Older women Religious life Côte d'Ivoire. Older women Political activity Côte d'Ivoire. Generative organs, Female Symbolic aspects Côte d'Ivoire. Generative organs, Female Religious aspects. Generative organs, Female Political aspects Côte d'Ivoire. Côte d'Ivoire Religion. Anthropology Africa Civilization Africa Religion Africa Politics and Government Postcolonialism Africa Ethics, Comparative Sex Role 1-4780-0120-8 Religious cultures of African and African diaspora people. |
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Grillo, Laura S., 1956- An intimate rebuke : female genital power in ritual and politics in Côte d'Ivoire / The religious cultures of African and African diaspora people Home and the unhomely: the foundational nature of female genital power -- Genies, witches, and women: locating female powers -- Matrifocal morality: FGP and the foundation of "home" -- Gender and resistance: the "strategic essentialism" of FGP -- Worldliness: FGP in the making of ethnicity, alliance, and war in Côte d'Ivoire -- Founding knowledge/binding power: the moral foundations of ethnicity and Alliance -- Women at the checkpoint: challenging the forces of civil war -- Timeliness: urgent situations and emergent critiques -- Violation and deployment: FGP in politics in Côte d'Ivoire -- Memory, memorialization, and morality -- Conclusion. an intimate rebuke: a local critique in the global postcolony. |
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Home and the unhomely: the foundational nature of female genital power -- Genies, witches, and women: locating female powers -- Matrifocal morality: FGP and the foundation of "home" -- Gender and resistance: the "strategic essentialism" of FGP -- Worldliness: FGP in the making of ethnicity, alliance, and war in Côte d'Ivoire -- Founding knowledge/binding power: the moral foundations of ethnicity and Alliance -- Women at the checkpoint: challenging the forces of civil war -- Timeliness: urgent situations and emergent critiques -- Violation and deployment: FGP in politics in Côte d'Ivoire -- Memory, memorialization, and morality -- Conclusion. an intimate rebuke: a local critique in the global postcolony. |
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