Warrior Marks: Female Genital Mutilation and the Sexual Blinding of Women - Hardcover

Alice Walker; Pratibha Parmar

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0151000611 ISBN 13: 9780151000616

Publisher: Harcourt Brace & Co., 1993

Synopsis

The author of The Color Purple travels to Gambia, Senegal, and Burkina to interview a group of women trying to eliminate the traditional practice of female clitoral circumcision, a practice forced on women by the men of those societies. 100,000 first printing.

About this title

About the Author:

ALICE WALKER is an internationally celebrated writer, poet, and activist whose books include seven novels, four collections of short stories, four children’s books, and volumes of essays and poetry. She won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction in 1983 and the National Book Award.

From Publishers Weekly:

Female genital mutilation is still widely practiced in Africa, the Middle East and Asia. Walker, whose 1992 novel Possessing the Secret of Joy explored the life of a genitally mutilated African woman, teamed up with Indian filmmaker Parmar (who was born in Kenya and is based in London) to make a documentary film about this abhorrent practice. This forceful account of how they filmed Warrior Marks in Africa in 1992-93 splices letters, journal entries, photographs, poems and interviews with victims of "female circumcision," their families, women who perform clitoridectomies and activists opposed to the practice. Included is medical testimony suggesting that female genital mutilation may contribute to the spead of AIDS. This remarkable cross-cultural collaboration should help to break the deafening silence surrounding a taboo subject.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Harcourt Brace & Co.
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0151000611
• ISBN 13: 9780151000616
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 373