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296 pages • first pub 2018 (view editions)
ISBN/UID: 9781478001201
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Edition Pub Date: 07 December 2018
Description
Throughout West African societies, at times of social crises, postmenopausal women--the Mothers--make a ritual appeal to their innate moral authority. The seat of this power is the female genitalia. Wielding branches or pestles, they strip naked a...
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296 pages • first pub 2018 (view editions)
ISBN/UID: 9781478001201
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Edition Pub Date: 07 December 2018
Description
Throughout West African societies, at times of social crises, postmenopausal women--the Mothers--make a ritual appeal to their innate moral authority. The seat of this power is the female genitalia. Wielding branches or pestles, they strip naked a...