Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-248) and index.
Contents:
Introduction : writing women's rites and rights -- Denunciations of colonization and hesitant feminist criticism in early literary circumscriptions of female genital excision (1963-1974) -- Growing feminist disenchantment in literary explorations of female genital excision around the UN decade for women (1968-1988) -- The globalization of the literary debate on female genital excision at the close of the twentieth century (1982-1998).
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