{"product_id":"an-intimate-rebuke-9781478001553","title":"An Intimate Rebuke","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this ethnography of female empowerment, Laura S. Grillo offers new perspectives on how elder West African women deploy an ancient ritual in which they dance naked and slap their genitals and bare breasts to protest abuses of state power, globalization, witchcraft, rape, and other social dangers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A detailed and thoughtful history of Côte d’Ivoire that gives due placement to civilian women who have largely been ignored in the definitive historical monographs. . . . Grillo’s scholarship has groundbreaking strengths. For those interested in religion, her detailed documentation of myth, ritual, secret societies, symbolism, witchcraft, and the appeal to the spiritual domain—and her defense of the inclusion of this knowledge as a requisite in understanding a country’s history—is utterly exquisite. . . . The work is inimitable—Grillo is sensitive, sensible, and devotes attention to detail.\" -- Dianna Bell * Reading Religion *\u003cbr\u003e“Ultimately, Grillo demonstrates how knowledge of the moral authority of women elders remained and remains embedded in West Africa and that women enact FGP to defend not only social equity and justice but also their own rights. \u003ci\u003eAn Intimate Rebuke\u003c\/i\u003e will be required reading for all future analysis of women’s authority and mobilization.” -- Jill E. Kelly * African Studies Review *\u003cbr\u003e“Grillo’s work redefines our understanding of the use of ritual and moral values in the current postcolonial political order by focusing on the ignored phenomenon of Female Genital Power.... Grillo’s work is an important contribution to the study of gender, religion, history, and politics, particularly in Côte d’Ivoire but also in the whole West African subregion.” -- Carole Ammann * Religious Studies Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction  1\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Home and the Unhomely: The Foundational Nature of Female Genital Power  19\u003cbr\u003e 1. Genies, Witches, and Women: Locating Female Powers  21\u003cbr\u003e 2. Matrifocal Morality: FGP and the Foundations of \"Home\"  54\u003cbr\u003e 3. Gender and Resistance: The \"Strategic Essentialism\" of FGP  81\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Worldliness: FGP in the Making of Ethnicity, Alliance, and the War in Côte D'Ivoire  117\u003cbr\u003e 4. Founding Knowledge\/Binding Power: The Moral Foundations of Ethnicity and Alliance  121\u003cbr\u003e 5. Women at the Checkpoint: Challenging the Forces of Civil War  152\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Timeliness: Urgent Situations and Emergent Critiques  171\u003cbr\u003e 6. Violation and Deployment: FGP in Politics in Côte D'Ivoire  175\u003cbr\u003e 7. Memory, Memorialization, and Morality  198\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion. An Intimate Rebuke: A Local Critique in the Global Postcolony  228\u003cbr\u003e Notes  239\u003cbr\u003e References  255\u003cbr\u003e Index  275","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408971374935,"sku":"9781478001553","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478001553.jpg?v=1730504914","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/an-intimate-rebuke-9781478001553","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}