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Quotes from Naked Agency: Genital Cursing and Biopolitics in Africa (Theory in Forms) — Naminata Diabate

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Despite supposed biological sharedness that undergirds the faulty argument that the exposed body carries the same impact across geographical and temporal spaces, the silence of the women’s targets became deafening.

Naked Agency: Genital Cursing and Biopolitics in Africa (Theory in Forms) (2020)

The potency of women’s bodies is said to lie in the fact that many societies—including the Akan of Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire, the Beti of Cameroon, the Malinké of Mali, the Igbo of Nigeria, and the Kikuyu of Kenya—consider women’s bodies as both life giving and life taking.

Naked Agency: Genital Cursing and Biopolitics in Africa (Theory in Forms) (2020)

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