An Intimate Rebuke: Female Genital Power in Ritual and Politics in West Africa

An Intimate Rebuke: Female Genital Power in Ritual and Politics in West Africa Grillo Laura S. Wydawca: Duke University Press Data wydania: 2018 ISBN: 9781478001201 Liczba stron: 296 Format: 229 x 152 Rodzaj oprawy: Hardback Opis produktu: In this ethnography of female empowerment, Laura S. Grillo offers new perspectives on how elder West African women deploy an ancient ritual in which they dance naked and slap their genitals and bare breasts to protest abuses of state power, globalization, witchcraft, rape, and other social dangers.