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Rising anthills : African and African American writing on female genital excision, 1960-2000 /

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bekers, Elisabeth, 1971-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, ©2010.
Colección:Women in Africa and the diaspora.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Machine generated contents note: Dissecting Anthills of Insurrection
  • Traditional Discourses of Female Genital Excision
  • Colonial and Anticolonial Discourses of Female Genital Excision
  • Feminist and Human Rights Discourses of Female Genital Excision
  • Postcolonial Discourses of Female Genital Excision
  • Three Literary "Generations" Writing on Female Gential Excision
  • ch. 1 Denunciations of Colonization and Hesitant Feminist Criticism in Early Literary "Circumscriptions" of Female Genital Excision (1963-1974)
  • Excised Women's Bodies as Pamphlets of Ethnicity in the Kenyan Struggle for Independence / Likimani
  • Two Exceptional Women's Alternative Gender Scripts / Njau
  • First Generation: Cultural Ambassadors, Cautious Critics
  • ch. 2 Growing Feminist Disenchantment in Literary Explorations of Female Genital Excision around the UN Decade for Women (1968-1988)
  • Immobile Women's Moving Narratives / Maiga Ka
  • Captive/ating Women Warriors / Rifaat
  • Second Generation: Resistance against National and Gender Oppression
  • ch. 3 Globalization of the Literary Debate on Female Genital Excision at the Close of the Twentieth Century (1982-1998)
  • African American Fictionalizations of a "Culturally Challenging" Practice / Dickerson
  • Cultural Complications in Fiction by Other Women of African Descent / Keita
  • Third Generation: Affinities across the Diaspora ... and through Time.