Shows how imperialist discourses complicate issues of gender, race, and history. This work traces the travels' of imperial and colonial discourses from antecedents in anthropology, travel writings, and missionary discourse to modern residues and configurations in films, literature, and popular culture. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix I INTRODUCTION The Challenges of Border-Crossing: African Women and Transnational Feminisms 3(18) Ohioma Nnaemeka II CULTURES, SEXUALITIES, AND KNOWLEDGE Imperialism and Sex in Africa 21(6) Nawal El Saadawi African Women, Colonial Discourses, and Imperialist Interventions: Female Circumcision as Impetus 27(20) Obioma Nnaemeka Transcending the Boundaries of Power and Imperialism: Writing Gender, Constructing Knowledge 47(34) Omofolabo Ajayi-Soyinka III BODIES THAT DON'T MATTER Out of Africa: "Our Bodies Ourselves?" 81(16) Vicki Kirby Women's Rights, Bodies, and Identities: The Limits of Universalism and the Legal Debate around Excision in France 97(14) Françoise Lionnet "Other" Bodies: Western Feminism, Race, and Representation in Female Circumcision Discourse 111(24) Chima Korieh IV IMPERIAL GAZE AND FICTIONS Libidinal Quicksand: Imperial Fictions, African Femininity, and Representation 135(30) Jude G. Akudinobi Confronting the Western Gaze 165(18) Eloise A. Brière V TRANSNATIONAL FEMINIST CONTENTIONS: SISTERHOOD AND COALITION POLITICS REVISITED The Anti-Female Circumcision Campaign Deficit 183(26) L. Amede Obiora Colonial Discourse and Ethnographic Residuals: The "Female Circumcision" Debate and the Politics of Knowledge 209(10) Sondra Hale Parallax Sightlines: Alice Walker's Sisterhood and the Key to Dreams 219(26) Chimalum Nwankwo Overcoming Willful Blindness: Building Egalitarian Multicultural Women's Coalitions 245(30) Ange-Marie Hancock INDEX 275(10) ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS 285