The Twilight of Cutting : African Activism and Life after NGOs /

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"The last three decades have witnessed a proliferation of NGOs engaging in new campaigns to end the practice of female genital cutting across Africa. These campaigns have in turn spurred new institutions, discourses, and political projects, bringing about unexpected social transformations, both...

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Auteur principal: Hodžić, Saida, 1977- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Feminism.
Female circumcision > Prevention.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Customs & Traditions.
Feminisme > Ghāna.
Organisations non gouvernementales > Aspect social > Ghāna.
Feminism > Ghana.
Non-governmental organizations > Social aspects > Ghana.
Female circumcision > Ghana > Prevention.
Female circumcision > Political aspects > Ghana.
Ghana.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Preface : coming to questions
  • Introduction : governmentality against itself
  • Colonial reason, sensibility, and the ethnographic style
  • Making harmful traditional practices
  • When cutting did and did not end
  • Mistaken by design : biopolitics in practice
  • Blood loss and slow harm in times of scarcity
  • The feminist fetish : legal advocacy
  • Against sovereign violence.

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