Vol. 4 No. 1 (2025): Women and Water: The Flow of Matriculture
Book Reviews

Review of Laura S. Grillo, An Intimate Rebuke: Female Genital Power in Ritual and Politics in West Africa

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  • Umasom Amos
On an azure background, a stylized African woman displays her genitals. The author's name, Laura S. Grillo, and the title of the book, An Intimate Rebuke: Female Genital Power in Ritual and Politics in West Africa, are below her.

Published 2025-03-30

Keywords

  • female genital power,
  • Ivory Coast,
  • West Africa,
  • matriculture

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How to Cite

Review of Laura S. Grillo, An Intimate Rebuke: Female Genital Power in Ritual and Politics in West Africa. (2025). Matrix: A Journal for Matricultural Studies, 4(1), 164-166. https://doi.org/10.60676/v9wrfk08

Abstract

In her book An Intimate Rebuke: Female Genital Power in Ritual and Politics in West Africa, Laura Grillo intensively analyzes West African women's demonstration of spiritual and moral power using their genitals: Female Genital Power (FGP).

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References

  1. Laura S. Grillo, An Intimate Rebuke: Female Genital Power in Ritual and Politics in West Africa (Durham: Duke University Press, 2018)