Whole Earth, December 22nd, 2001
Possessing the Secret of Joy Alice Walker 1992; 288pp, $14 Washington Square Press As a feminist, I have made it my business to hear the facts about Female Genital Mutilation. In my privileged, college-educated, white girl position, I hear about it all the time. So why read more about it? What else is out there that I haven't heard and cried about yet? As an African American author, Alice Walker has made it her business to keep people like me listening, to give voice to the ones who have lived and died from this emotionally and physically crippling tradition. We hear the personal voices of e...
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