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An Intimate Rebuke
Rituals
Africa, history
Female Generative organs
Older women
Political activity
Religious life
Religious aspects
Religion
Women
Throughout West African societies, at times of social crises, postmenopausal women ? the Mothers ? make a ritual appeal to their innate moral authority. The seat of this power is the female genitalia. Wielding branches or pestles, they strip naked and slap their genitals and bare breasts to curse an…
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