Publication

2007 - Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif, California

Language

English

Word Count

81,000 words, Guess

Page Count

324 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139780804756877
  • ISBN-100804756872
  • Library of Congress Control Number2007018573
  • OCLC Control Number124538563
  • Better World Books9780804756877
and 1 more

Classifications

  • DDC809.93353
  • LCCPL8010 .Z33 2007
  • LCCPL8010

Description

Modern 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 21st century, this study shows how this experiential body of literature - encompassing English, Arabic, and French - goes 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.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Between rites and rights: excision in women's experiential texts and human contextsStanford University Press2007-01-01

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