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  title info:
    title: Warrior marks
    sub title: female genital mutilation and the sexual blinding of women
  name:
    name part: Walker, Alice
    name part: 1944-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Parmar, Pratibha
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Olin Library Black authors.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 1993
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 373 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  abstract: In her best-selling 1992 novel, Possessing the Secret of Joy, Alice Walker opened a painful door: she brought the issue of female genital mutilation, a practice that affects one hundred million of the world's women, to the attention of the reading public. For many readers, this first encounter with a subject previously unfamiliar to them was shocking and unforgettable. Alice Walker decided early in the process of writing her novel that she had not yet done enough to help stop this age-old practice. She resolved to make a documentary film that would further educate people about the harmful, sometimes deadly process of removing the clitoris - and often the remaining outer genitalia - as a means of maintaining tradition and ensuring a woman's "cleanliness" and fidelity. To make the film, Alice Walker teamed up with Indian-British filmmaker Pratibha Parmar, whose credits include several widely acclaimed documentaries focusing on issues of race, gender, and sexuality. This book chronicles their odyssey together. Warrior Marks describes a unique filmmaking journey, from Alice Walker's first letter to Pratibha Parmar proposing the idea of the film to the many journal entries and observations each of them made along the way. From California to England to Senegal, The Gambia, and Burkina Faso, Warrior Marks follows Walker and Parmar as they interview people who are concerned with and affected by the practice of female genital mutilation. The text includes transcripts of their interviews, three new poems by Alice Walker, and over fifty photographs offering a vivid and poignant portrayal of the people and places they visited. For its insights into the collaborative creative process, as well as its perceptions about the politics of filmmaking and the politics of feminism, Warrior Marks is an extraordinary volume. It is also the adventure of two remarkable women who together fulfilled a dream.
  table of contents: Introduction -- Alice's Journey -- Introduction -- Pratibha's Journey -- Interviews -- Film Credits -- Acknowledgments -- Afterword -- Female Genitalia -- Types of Female Genital Mutilation -- Contact Organizations and Advocacy Groups.
  note: Alice Walker and Pratibha Parmar.
  note: Map on lining papers.
  note: The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Arden Eversmeyer Collection.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-372).
  subject:
    geographic code: f------
  subject:
    topic: Clitoridectomy
  subject:
    topic: Infibulation
  subject:
    topic: Female circumcision
  subject:
    topic: Abused women
    geographic: Africa
  subject:
    topic: Ethnology
  subject:
    topic: Circumcision, Female
  subject:
    topic: Clitoris
    topic: surgery
  subject:
    topic: Genitalia, Female
    topic: surgery
  subject:
    topic: Anthropology, Cultural
  subject:
    geographic: Africa
  subject:
    topic: Clitoridectomie
  subject:
    topic: Infibulation
  subject:
    topic: Femmes victimes de violence
    geographic: Afrique
  subject:
    topic: Ethnologie
  subject:
    geographic: Afrique
  subject:
    topic: Ethnology
  subject:
    topic: Abused women
  subject:
    topic: Clitoridectomy
  subject:
    topic: Female circumcision
  subject:
    topic: Infibulation
  subject:
    topic: Clitoridectomie
  classification: GN484 .W35 1993
  classification: 392
  classification: 1994 C-232
  classification: GN 484 W177w 1993
  classification: 73.44
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    title info:
      title: Warrior marks
    name:
      name part: Walker, Alice, 1944-
    origin info:
      publisher: New York : Harcourt Brace, ©1993
      edition: 1st ed.
    identifier: (OCoLC)608119905
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Warrior marks
    name:
      name part: Walker, Alice, 1944-
    origin info:
      publisher: New York : Harcourt Brace, ©1993
      edition: 1st ed.
    identifier: (OCoLC)623280335
  identifier: 0151000611
  identifier: 9780151000616
  identifier: 93242654
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 931213
    record change date: 20230614103303.0
    record identifier: in00001156336
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng