Obioma Nnaemeka is Professor of French, Women's Studies, and African/African Diaspora Studies and Director of the Women's Studies Program at Indiana University, Indianapolis. She is also the President of the Association of African Women Scholars. Professor Nnaemeka has published extensively on literature, women's/gender studies, development, and African/African Diaspora studies.

• INTRODUCTIONThe Challenges of Border-Crossing: African Women and Transnational Feminisms by Obioma NnaemekaCULTURES, SEXUALITIES, AND KNOWLEDGESex and Imperialism in Africa by Nawal El SaadawiAfrican Women, Colonial Discourses, and Imperialist Interventions: Female Circumcision as Impetus by Obioma NnaemekaTranscending the Boundaries of Power and Imperialism: Writing Gender, Constructing Knowledge by Omofolabo Ajayi-SoyinkaBODIES THAT DON'T MATTEROut of Africa: "Our Bodies Ourselves?" by Vicki KirbyWomen's Rights, Bodies, and Identities: The Limits of Universalism and the Legal Debate around Excision in France by Francoise Lionnet"Other" Bodies: Western Feminism, Race, and Representation in Female Circumcision Discourse by Chima KoriehIMPERIAL GAZE AND FICTIONSLibidinal Quicksand: Imperial Fictions and African Femininity by Jude AkudinobiConfronting the Western Gaze by Eloise BrièreTRANSNATIONAL FEMINIST CONTENTIONS: SISTERHOOD AND COALITION POLITICS REVISITEDThe Anti Female Circumcision Campaign Deficit by L. Amede ObioraColonial Discourse and Ethnographic Residuals: The "Female Circumcision" Debate and the Politics of Knowledge by Sondra HaleParallax Sightlines: Alice Walker's Sisterhood and the Key to Dreams by Chimalum NwankwoOvercoming Willful Blindness: Building Egalitarian Multicultural Women's Coalitions by Ange-Marie HancockNotes on ContributorsIndex

[T]his thought-provoking volume--which probes the bases of ethnocentric 'value-free' and ahistorical approaches to social issues--provides a valuable corrective to the dominant discours on African women's practice of female circumcision.