Mothers of Invention: Gender, Strategic Essentialism, and Women's Genital Power in West Africa
Across West Africa, postmenopausal women, whom Laura Grillo calls the "Mothers," have expressed outrage at male political mismanagement by exposing their breasts and genitalia. This essay explores the contributions of and tensions within Grillo's analysis of the Mothers' history...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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The Pennsylvania State University Press
[2019]
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| In: |
Journal of Africana religions
Year: 2019, Volume: 7, Issue: 2, Pages: 299-307 |
| Review of: | An Intimate Rebuke: Female Genital Power in Ritual and Politics in West Africa (Duke University Press, 2018) (Hellweg, Joseph) |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Ivory Coast
/ Woman
/ Postmenopause
/ Generative organs
/ Protest
/ Power
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AG Religious life; material religion BB Indigenous religions KBN Sub-Saharan Africa NBE Anthropology RA Practical theology TK Recent history |
| Further subjects: | B
Book review
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Volltext (Resolving-System) Volltext (doi) |
| Summary: | Across West Africa, postmenopausal women, whom Laura Grillo calls the "Mothers," have expressed outrage at male political mismanagement by exposing their breasts and genitalia. This essay explores the contributions of and tensions within Grillo's analysis of the Mothers' history of protest, referencing Grillo's superb ethnographic and historical account. |
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| ISSN: | 2165-5413 |
| Reference: | Kritik in "Excavating the Matri-archive (2019)"
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of Africana religions
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5325/jafrireli.7.2.2019.0299 |