Naked Agency: Genital Cursing and Biopolitics in Africa

by Naminata Diabate

Book Overview

Across Africa, mature women have for decades mobilized the power of their nakedness in political protest to shame and punish male adversaries. This insurrectionary nakedness, often called genital cursing, owes its cultural potency to the religious belief that spirits residing in women's bodies can be unleashed to cause misfortune in their targets, including impotence, disease, and death. In Naked Agency, Naminata Diabate analyzes these collective...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478006889
• ISBN13: 9781478006886
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"