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Between rites and rights : excision in women's experiential texts and human contexts
- Title
- Between rites and rights : excision in women's experiential texts and human contexts / Chantal Zabus.
- Author
- Zabus, Chantal J.
- Publication
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2007.
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- Description
- xiv, 324 pages; 24 cm
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-314) and index.
- Contents
- Pt. 1. The cult of culture -- 1. Sexual pre-texts -- 2. Kenyan reactance : Kenyatta, Huxley, wa Thiong'o -- 3. Kenyan women's texts : Njau, Likimani, Waciuma -- Pt. 2. Speaking from memory : religion and remembrance -- 4. In passing and other circumspections : Nwapa, El Saadawi, Rifaat -- 5. On spurious geneses : Nawal El Saadawi -- 6. Spoken autobiographical acts : Nayra Atiya's Khul-Khaal -- Pt. 3. From sealing to opening up : sex, exile, and empowerment -- 7. The sealed condition : from the beginnings to Freud and Herzi -- 8. Silence, exile, and the spectacle of the fashioned body : Amari, Barry, Dirie -- 9. The whole woman and the law : Keita, Ahmadu, Kassindja, Dirie, Khady, Abdi, Korn -- 10. The exciser -- Conclusion : between rights and future rites.
- ISBN
- 9780804756877 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0804756872 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2007018573
- OCLC
- 124538563
- SCSB-5364305
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries