Part I. Home and the unhomely: the foundational nature of female genital power
Genies, witches, and women: locating female powers
Matrifocal morality: FGP and the foundation of "home"
Gender and resistance: the "strategic essentialism" of FGP
Par t II. Worldliness: FGP in the making of ethnicity, alliance, and war in Côte d'Ivoire
Founding knowledge/binding power: the moral foundations of ethnicity and Alliance
Women at the checkpoint: challenging the forces of civil war
Part III.Timeliness: urgent situations and emergent critiques
Violation and deployment: FGP in politics in Côte d'Ivoire
Memory, memorialization, and morality
Conclusion. an intimate rebuke: a local critique in the global postcolony
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