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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| Superior document: | The religious cultures of African and African diaspora people |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Durham : : Duke University Press,, 2018. |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Religious cultures of African and African diaspora people.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (305 pages). |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.