Laura S. Grillo is Affiliated Faculty in the Department of Theology at Georgetown University.
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
Part I. Home and the Unhomely: The Foundational Nature of Female Genital Power 19
1. Genies, Witches, and Women: Locating Female Powers 21
2. Matrifocal Morality: FGP and the Foundations of "Home" 54
3. Gender and Resistance: The "Strategic Essentialism" of FGP 81
Part II. Worldliness: FGP in the Making of Ethnicity, Alliance, and the War in Côte D'Ivoire 117
4. Founding Knowledge/Binding Power: The Moral Foundations of Ethnicity and Alliance 121
5. Women at the Checkpoint: Challenging the Forces of Civil War 152
Part III. Timeliness: Urgent Situations and Emergent Critiques 171
6. Violation and Deployment: FGP in Politics in Côte D'Ivoire 175
7. Memory, Memorialization, and Morality 198
Conclusion. An Intimate Rebuke: A Local Critique in the Global Postcolony 228
Notes 239
References 255
Index 275
Finalist for the 2019 Albert J. Raboteau Prize for the Best Book in Africana Relgions
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