Female Circumcision and the Politics of Knowledge
Female Circumcision and the Politics of Knowledge
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女性包皮环切术与知识政治
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2005
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Obioma Nnaemeka
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Obioma Nnaemeka
关于女性割礼的激烈辩论和反对割礼的叛乱是一种疾病的症状，这种疾病源于一种心态，这种心态产生了人类的等级制度，征服了殖民地，建立了帝国。殖民地和帝国的丧失丝毫没有削弱帝国建设的意识形态基础和支撑它的知识建构，这种心态在融合点上找到了表达。女性割礼为这种表达提供了一个结合点和动力。坚持认为帝国主义项目所依赖的等级制度不是两极的，而是多层次的，更复杂的，本卷的贡献表明帝国主义话语如何使性别，种族和历史问题复杂化。Nnaemeka为沉默和边缘化的人发声，并为他们参与知识建设和理论制定创造空间。
本书的作者追溯了帝国和殖民话语的旅行，从人类学、旅行著作和传教士话语的前身，到电影、文学和流行文化的现代配置。作者询问了外国或西方在所谓的第三世界的运作方式和干预措施，并展示了它们所产生的阻力如何阻碍发展工作，破坏促进跨国女权主义议程所必需的真正合作和伙伴关系。作者用简单易懂的语言，清晰地提出了对跨国女权主义和发展具有重要意义的复杂思想和论点。
Heated debates about and insurgencies against female circumcision are symptoms of a disease emanating from a mindset that produced hierarchies of humans, conquered colonies, and built empires. The loss of colonies and empires does not in any way mitigate the ideological underpinnings of empire-building and the knowledge construction that subtends it. The mindset finds its articulation at points of coalescence. Female circumcision provided a point of coalescence and impetus for this articulation. Insisting that the hierarchy on which the imperialist project rests is not bipolar but multi-layered and more complex, the contributions in this volume demonstrate how imperialist discourses complicate issues of gender, race, and history. Nnaemeka gives voice to the silenced and marginalized, and creates space for them to participate in knowledge construction and theory making.
The authors in this volume trace the travels of imperial and colonial discourses from antecedents in anthropology, travel writings, and missionary discourse, to modern configurations in films, literature, and popular culture. The contributors interrogate foreign, or Western, modus operandi and interventions in the so-called Third World and show how the resistance they generate can impede development work and undermine the true collaboration and partnership necessary to promote a transnational feminist agenda. With great clarity and in simple, accessible language, the contributors present complex ideas and arguments which hold significant implications for transnational feminism and development.