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Between rites and rights : excision in women's experiential texts and human contexts /
Modern African women writers have introduced a new autobiographical discourse around their experience of excision that brings nuance to the female genital mutilation debate. Spanning pharaonic times through classical antiquity to the onset of the 21st century, this study shows how this experiential...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Stanford, Calif. :
Stanford University Press,
2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- pt. 1. The cult of culture. Sexual pre-texts ; Kenyan reactance: Kenyatta, Huxley, wa Thiong'o ; Kenyan women's texts: Njau, Likimani, Waciuma
- pt. 2. Speaking from memory: religion and remembrance. In passing and other circumspections: Nwapa, El Saadawi, Rifaat ; On spurious geneses: Nawal El Saadawi ; Spoken autobiographical acts: Nayra Atiya's Khul-Khaal
- pt. 3. From sealing to opening up: sex, exile, and empowerment. The sealed condition: from the beginnings to Freud and Herzi ; Silence, exile, and the spectacle of the fashioned body: Aman, Barry, Dirie ; The whole woman and the law: Keita, Ahmadu, Kassindja, Dirie, Khady, Abdi, Korn ; The Exciser ; Conclusion: Between rights and future rites.