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OverviewThe last three decades have witnessed a proliferation of nongovernmental organizations 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 intended and unintended. Consequently, cutting is waning across the continent. At the same time, these endings are misrecognized and disavowed by public and scholarly discourses across the political spectrum. What does it mean to say that while cutting is ending, the Western discourse surrounding it is on the rise? And what kind of a feminist anthropology is needed in such a moment? The Twilight of Cutting examines these and other questions from the vantage point of Ghanaian feminist and reproductive health NGOs that have organized campaigns against cutting for over thirty years. The book looks at these NGOs not as solutions but as sites of “problematization.” The purpose of understanding these Ghanaian campaigns, their transnational and regional encounters, and the forms of governmentality they produce is not to charge them with providing answers to the question, how do we end cutting? Instead, it is to account for their work, their historicity, the life worlds and subjectivities they engender, and the modes of reflection, imminent critique, and opposition they set in motion. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Saida HodzicPublisher: University of California Press Imprint: University of California Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.590kg ISBN: 9780520291997ISBN 10: 0520291999 Pages: 416 Publication Date: 15 November 2016 Audience: College/higher education , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsPreface: Coming to Questions Introduction: Governmentality against Itself 1 * Colonial Reason, Sensibility, and the Ethnographic Style 2 * Making Harmful Traditional Practices 3 * When Cutting Did and Did Not End 4 * Mistaken by Design: Biopolitics in Practice 5 * Blood Loss and Slow Harm in Times of Scarcity 6 * Th e Feminist Fetish: Legal Advocacy 7 * Against Sovereign Violence Epilogue Acknowledgments Acronyms Notes References IndexReviewsReaders can expect a brilliant feminist critique of the 'problematisation' of female genital cutting. * Journal of Modern African Studies * Hodzic's ethnography compellingly reveals the ways in which FGM as a discursive concept remains active in the wake of the ending of genital cutting practices. * Africa * This book is a gem for it offers insights into issues of interest to a wide range of scholars such as development specialists, anthropologists, Africanist scholars and feminists. * African Review of Economics * This rich ethnography has much to say about civil society and feminist problems in a 21st century postcolonial nation. * Somatosphere * This rich ethnography has much to say about civil society and feminist problems in a 21st century postcolonial nation. * Somatosphere * This book is a gem for it offers insights into issues of interest to a wide range of scholars such as development specialists, anthropologists, Africanist scholars and feminists. * African Review of Economics * Hodzic 's ethnography compellingly reveals the ways in which FGM as a discursive concept remains active in the wake of the ending of genital cutting practices. * Africa: The Journal of the International African Institute * Readers can expect a brilliant feminist critique of the 'problematisation' of female genital cutting. * Journal of Modern African Studies * A timely contribution to pan-African scholarship. * Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's and Gender Studies * """This rich ethnography has much to say about civil society and feminist problems in a 21st century postcolonial nation."" * Somatosphere * ""This book is a gem for it offers insights into issues of interest to a wide range of scholars such as development specialists, anthropologists, Africanist scholars and feminists."" * African Review of Economics * ""Hodžić’s ethnography compellingly reveals the ways in which FGM as a discursive concept remains active in the wake of the ending of genital cutting practices."" * Africa: The Journal of the International African Institute * ""Readers can expect a brilliant feminist critique of the 'problematisation' of female genital cutting."" * Journal of Modern African Studies * ""A timely contribution to pan-African scholarship."" * Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women’s and Gender Studies *" Author InformationSaida Hodzic is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Cornell University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |