Female Circumcision and the Politics of Kn...

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Heated debates about and insurgencies against female circumcision are symptoms of a disease emanating from a mindset that produced hierarchies of humans, conquered colonies, and built empires. The loss of colonies and empires does not in any way mitigate the ideological underpinnings of empire-building and the knowledge construction that subtends it. The mindset finds its articulation at points of coalescence. Female circumcision provided a point of coalescence and impetus for this articulation. Insisting that the hierarchy on which the imperialist project rests is not bipolar but multi-layered and more complex, the contributions in this volume demonstrate how imperialist discourses complicate issues of gender, race, and history. Nnaemeka gives voice to the silenced and marginalized, and creates space for them to participate in knowledge construction and theory making.

The authors in this volume trace the travels of imperial and colonial discourses from antecedents in anthropology, travel writings, and missionary discourse, to modern configurations in films, literature, and popular culture. The contributors interrogate foreign, or Western, modus operandi and interventions in the so-called Third World and show how the resistance they generate can impede development work and undermine the true collaboration and partnership necessary to promote a transnational feminist agenda. With great clarity and in simple, accessible language, the contributors present complex ideas and arguments which hold significant implications for transnational feminism and development.

Über den Autor

Obioma Nnaemeka is Professor of French, Women's Studies, and African/African Diaspora Studies and Director of the Women's Studies Program at Indiana University, Indianapolis. She is also the President of the Association of African Women Scholars. Professor Nnaemeka has published extensively on literature, women's/gender studies, development, and African/African Diaspora studies.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

INTRODUCTION
The Challenges of Border-Crossing: African Women and Transnational Feminisms by Obioma Nnaemeka
CULTURES, SEXUALITIES, AND KNOWLEDGE
Sex and Imperialism in Africa by Nawal El Saadawi
African Women, Colonial Discourses, and Imperialist Interventions: Female Circumcision as Impetus by Obioma Nnaemeka
Transcending the Boundaries of Power and Imperialism: Writing Gender, Constructing Knowledge by Omofolabo Ajayi-Soyinka
BODIES THAT DON'T MATTER
Out of Africa: "Our Bodies Ourselves?" by Vicki Kirby
Women's Rights, Bodies, and Identities: The Limits of Universalism and the Legal Debate around Excision in France by Francoise Lionnet
"Other" Bodies: Western Feminism, Race, and Representation in Female Circumcision Discourse by Chima Korieh
IMPERIAL GAZE AND FICTIONS
Libidinal Quicksand: Imperial Fictions and African Femininity by Jude Akudinobi
Confronting the Western Gaze by Eloise Brière
TRANSNATIONAL FEMINIST CONTENTIONS: SISTERHOOD AND COALITION POLITICS REVISITED
The Anti Female Circumcision Campaign Deficit by L. Amede Obiora
Colonial Discourse and Ethnographic Residuals: The "Female Circumcision" Debate and the Politics of Knowledge by Sondra Hale
Parallax Sightlines: Alice Walker's Sisterhood and the Key to Dreams by Chimalum Nwankwo
Overcoming Willful Blindness: Building Egalitarian Multicultural Women's Coalitions by Ange-Marie Hancock
Notes on Contributors
Index

Erscheinungsjahr:	2005
Genre:	Importe , Soziologie
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9780897898652
ISBN-10:	0897898656
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Nnaemeka, Obioma
Hersteller:	Praeger
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	234 x 156 x 16 mm
Von/Mit:	Obioma Nnaemeka
Erscheinungsdatum:	30.07.2005
Gewicht:	0,456 kg