The twilight of cutting : African activism and life after NGOs / Saida Hodžić.

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"The last three decades have witnessed a proliferation of NGOs engaging in new campaigns to end the practice of female genital cutting across Africa. These campaigns have in turn spurred new institutions, discourses, and political projects, bringing about unexpected social transformations, both inte...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hodžić, Saida, 1977- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]
Subjects:
Female genital mutilation > Political aspects > Ghana.
Female genital mutilation > Ghana > Prevention.
Non-governmental organizations > Social aspects > Ghana.
Feminism > Ghana.
Physical Description:xii, 400 pages ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Preface : coming to questions
  • Introduction : governmentality against itself
  • Colonial reason, sensibility, and the ethnographic style
  • Making harmful traditional practices
  • When cutting did and did not end
  • Mistaken by design : biopolitics in practice
  • Blood loss and slow harm in times of scarcity
  • The feminist fetish : legal advocacy
  • Against sovereign violence.