Transcending the Boundaries of Power and Imperialism: Writing Gender, Constructing Knowledge

Female Circumcision and the Politics of Knowledge: African Women in Imperialist Discourses

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 47-78

  Ajayi Soyinka, Omofolabo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

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