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Informationen zum Autor Laura S. Grillo is Affiliated Faculty in the Department of Theology at Georgetown University. Klappentext In this ethnography of female empowerment, Laura S. Grillo offers new perspectives on how elder West African women deploy an ancient ritual in which they dance naked and slap their genitals and bare breasts to protest abuses of state power, globalization, witchcraft, rape, and other social dangers. Zusammenfassung In this ethnography of female empowerment! Laura S. Grillo offers new perspectives on how elder West African women deploy an ancient ritual in which they dance naked and slap their genitals and bare breasts to protest abuses of state power! globalization! witchcraft! rape! and other social dangers. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Part I. Home and the Unhomely: The Foundational Nature of Female Genital Power 19 1. Genies, Witches, and Women: Locating Female Powers 21 2. Matrifocal Morality: FGP and the Foundations of "Home" 54 3. Gender and Resistance: The "Strategic Essentialism" of FGP 81 Part II. Worldliness: FGP in the Making of Ethnicity, Alliance, and the War in Côte D'Ivoire 117 4. Founding Knowledge/Binding Power: The Moral Foundations of Ethnicity and Alliance 121 5. Women at the Checkpoint: Challenging the Forces of Civil War 152 Part III. Timeliness: Urgent Situations and Emergent Critiques 171 6. Violation and Deployment: FGP in Politics in Côte D'Ivoire 175 7. Memory, Memorialization, and Morality 198 Conclusion. An Intimate Rebuke: A Local Critique in the Global Postcolony 228 Notes 239 References 255 Index 275
