Female Circumcision and the Politics of Knowledge
Subtitle: African Women in Imperialist Discourses
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Published: July 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780897898645
Subjects: African studies; Multicultural studies; Women's studies; Feminism & Feminist Theory; Customs & Traditions; Social Science; Sociology; Social Science / Ethnic Studies; Colonial influence; Ethnic Studies - General; Africa; Body, Human; Female circumcision; Social aspects
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.