An Intimate Rebuke: Female Genital Power in Ritual and Politics in West Africa by Laura S. Grillo

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

Laura S. Grillo

296 pages first pub 2018 (editions)

challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Throughout West African societies, at times of social crises, postmenopausal women—the Mothers—make a ritual appeal to their innate moral authority. The seat of this power is the female genitalia. Wielding branches or pestles, they strip naked and...

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