WARRIOR MARKS. Female Genital Mutilation and the Sexual Blinding of Women

New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1993). First edition. hardcover. 4to. While writing her 1992 novel, Possessing the Secret of Joy, 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. She realized she had not yet done enough to help stop this age-old practice and she resolved to make a documentary film that would fruther educate people about the harmful, sometimes deadly process. To make the film Walker teamed up with Indian-British filmmaker Pratibha Parmar, whose credites include several widely acclaimed documentaries focusing on issues of race, gender, and sexuality. This book chronicles their odyssey together. Illustrated from photographs. 372 pages. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Item #14416
ISBN: 0151000611

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