Female Circumcision and the Politics of Knowledge
Subtitle: African Women in Imperialist Discourses
Publisher: Praeger Paperback
Published: July 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780897898652
Subjects: African studies; Multicultural studies; Women's studies; Social Science; Customs & Traditions; Sociology; Women's Studies - General; Social aspects; Ethnic Studies - General; Social Science / Ethnic Studies; Colonial influence; Africa; Body, Human; Female circumcision
First sentence: The contributors to this volume draw from a wide range of fields, including gender/women's studies, cultural studies, law, film studies, literary studies, history, feminist studies, African studies, and anthropology, to engage from "the other side" the hot-button issue of female circumcision.