Rising Anthills - African African American Writing on Female Genital Excision, 1960

Informationen zum Autor Elisabeth Bekers is lecturer in British and postcolonial literatures at the Free University of Brussels (VUB) and research affiliate at the University of Antwerp. Klappentext Shows how the debate on female genital excision has evolved over the last four decades of the twentieth century! in response to changing attitudes about ethnicity! nationalism! colonialism! feminism! and human rights. The author discerns a gradual evolution from the 1960s! when writers carefully "wrote around” the physical operation! to the late 1990s! when they situated their denunciations of female genital excision in a much broader! international context of women's oppression and the struggle for women's rights. Zusammenfassung Shows how the debate on female genital excision has evolved over the last four decades of the twentieth century! in response to changing attitudes about ethnicity! nationalism! colonialism! feminism! and human rights. The author discerns a gradual evoluti

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• Authors: Elisabeth Bekers
• Publisher: The University of Wisconsin Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.08.2010
• EAN: 9780299234942
• ISBN: 978-0-299-23494-2
• No. of pages: 360
• Series: Women in Africa and the Diaspora; Women in Africa and the Diaspo; Women in Africa and the Diaspora; Women in Africa and the Diaspo
• Subjects: Fiction > Mixed anthologies; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology