African Women, Colonial Discourses, and Imperialist Interventions: Female Circumcision as Impetus

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

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 27-46

  Nnaemeka, Obioma ^a,b,c  

^a Women's Studies Program   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Association of African Women Scholars   (United States)

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