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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Stanford Univ Pr
Publication date
August 15, 2007
Pages
324
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780804756877
ISBN-10
0804756872
Dimensions
1.25 by 6 by 9 in.
Weight
1.30 lbs.
Original list price
$67.50
Other format details
university press
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In the past five decades and over three generations, 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 twenty-first century, this unprecedented study shows how this experiential body of literatureÂencompassing English, Arabic, and FrenchÂgoes far beyond such traditional topics as universalism and cultural relativism, by locating the female body as a site of liminality between European and African factions, subject and agent; consent and dissent; custom and human rights. Women across the African Âexcision beltâ have broken away from the male discourses of anthropology and psychoanalysis and have fled from Âthe cult of cultureâ and from religious and patriarchal surveillance. These women have relocated their struggle to the West, where they seek empowerment and wrestle with the law. While showing the limits of autobiography, Between Rites and Rights boldly interweaves Freudian hysteria, the surgical age, the world of high fashion, male circumcisionâs Âfearful symmetry,â and Western body modification.
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from Stanford Univ Pr (August 15, 2007); titled "Between Rites and Rights: Excision in Women's Experiential Texts and Human Contexts"
9780804756877 | details & prices | 324 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 1.25 in. | 1.30 lbs | List price $67.50
About: In the past five decades and over three generations, African women writers have introduced a new autobiographical discourse around their experience of excision that brings nuance to the Female Genital Mutilation debate.
About: In the past five decades and over three generations, African women writers have introduced a new autobiographical discourse around their experience of excision that brings nuance to the Female Genital Mutilation debate.
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