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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Main Author: Hellweg, Joseph (Author)
Format: Electronic Review
Language:English
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Published: The Pennsylvania State University Press [2019]
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
IxTheo 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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