LEADER 03748oam 22005773u 450 001 9910311930703321 005 20241204165141.0 010 $a9781478002635 010 $a1478002638 035 $a(CKB)4100000007461642 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5630422 035 $a1053889365 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/30442 035 $a(Perlego)1466374 035 $a(oapen)doab30442 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000007461642 100 $a20180921d2018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 13$aAn intimate rebuke $efemale genital power in ritual and politics in Co?te d'Ivoire /$fLaura S. Grillo 210 $aDurham, NC$cDuke University Press$d2018 210 1$aDurham :$cDuke University Press,$d2018. 215 $a1 online resource (305 pages) 225 1 $aThe religious cultures of African and African diaspora people 311 08$a1-4780-0120-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aHome and the unhomely: the foundational nature of female genital power -- Genies, witches, and women: locating female powers -- Matrifocal morality: FGP and the foundation of "home" -- Gender and resistance: the "strategic essentialism" of FGP -- Worldliness: FGP in the making of ethnicity, alliance, and war in Co?te d'Ivoire -- Founding knowledge/binding power: the moral foundations of ethnicity and Alliance -- Women at the checkpoint: challenging the forces of civil war -- Timeliness: urgent situations and emergent critiques -- Violation and deployment: FGP in politics in Co?te d'Ivoire -- Memory, memorialization, and morality -- Conclusion. an intimate rebuke: a local critique in the global postcolony. 330 $aThroughout West African societies, at times of social crises, postmenopausal women ? the Mothers ? make a ritual appeal to their innate moral authority. The seat of this power is the female genitalia. Wielding branches or pestles, they strip naked and slap their genitals and bare breasts to curse and expel the forces of evil. In An Intimate Rebuke Laura S. Grillo draws on fieldwork in Côte d?Ivoire that spans three decades to illustrate how these rituals of Female Genital Power (FGP) constitute religious and political responses to abuses of power. When deployed in secret FGP operates as spiritual warfare against witchcraft; in public it serves as a political activism. During Côte d?Ivoire?s civil wars FGP challenged the immoral forces of both rebels and the state. Grillo shows how the ritual potency of the Mothers? nudity and the conjuration of their sex embodies a moral power that has been foundational to West African civilization. 410 0$aReligious cultures of African and African diaspora people. 606 $aOlder women$xReligious life$zCo?te d'Ivoire 606 $aOlder women$xPolitical activity$zCo?te d'Ivoire 606 $aGenerative organs, Female$xSymbolic aspects$zCo?te d'Ivoire 606 $aGenerative organs, Female$xReligious aspects 606 $aGenerative organs, Female$xPolitical aspects$zCo?te d'Ivoire 607 $aCo?te d'Ivoire$xReligion 615 0$aOlder women$xReligious life 615 0$aOlder women$xPolitical activity 615 0$aGenerative organs, Female$xSymbolic aspects 615 0$aGenerative organs, Female$xReligious aspects. 615 0$aGenerative organs, Female$xPolitical aspects 676 $a305.4096668 700 $aGrillo$b Laura S.$f1956-$0997948 801 0$bNDD 801 1$bNDD 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910311930703321 996 $aAn intimate rebuke$92288740 997 $aUNINA