- Abused women, Infibulation, Female circumcision, Clitoridectomy
In her best-selling 1992 novel, Possessing the Secret of Joy, Alice 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.
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Grave, earnest, contemporary and prestige.
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- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
- unpretentiousprestige
- cooloverwhelming
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- Author
- Alice Walker
- First published
- 1993
- Pages
- 373
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace & Company, Jonathan Cape, Harcourt Brace
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780151000616
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