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Week 7 – June 29Female Sexuality and the BodyFirst essay due(5-6 pages, 20% of final grade)Rogoia Mustafa Abusharaf, “Virtuous Cuts: Female Genital Circumcision in an African Ontology”(online, Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 12.1 (2001): 112-140)Liselott Dellenborg, “A Reflection on the Cultural Meanings of Female Circumcision”Nawal El-Saadawi, “The Mutilated Half: The Question that No One Would Answer” and“Circumcision of Girls”Wairimu Ngaruiya Njambi, “Dualisms and Female Bodies in Representations of African FemaleCircumcision” (online, Feminist Theory 5 (2004): 294-299)Sami A. Aldeeb Abu-Saalieh, “Male and Female Circumcision: The Myth of the Difference”Flora Nwapa, Efuru (Chapter one)Screening: Changing Paths: Female Circumcision in Mali (dir. Jacqueline Bakker, 2001)Week 8 – July 6Sexuality and Reproduction: Struggles and ResistancesLiv Haram, “„Prostitutes‟ or Modern Women? Negotiating Respectability in Northern Tanzania”Lynette A. Jackson, “„When in the White Man‟s Town‟: Zimbabwean Women Remember Chibeura”(online, book title: Women in African Colonial Histories)Allison Goebel, “„Men these days, they are a problem‟: Husband-taming Herbs and Gender Wars in RuralZimbabwe” (online, CJAS/RCEA 36.3 (2002): 460-489)Yvonne Vera, Butterfly BurningScreening: Sisters in Law (dir. Ayisi and Longinotto, 2005)Week 9 – July 13 Mid-Term: Take-Home Essay Questions (due week 10)Migrations and Global FlowsPiper Kendrix Williams, “The Impossibility of Return: Black Women‟s Migration to Africa”(online, Frontiers 27.2 (2006): 54-86)Kate Hampshire, “Flexibility in Domestic Organization and Seasonal Migration among the Fulani ofNorthern Burkina Faso” (online, Africa 76.3 (2006): 402-426)Anita Fabos, “Marriage, Sudanese-Style: Transnational Practices of Citizenship and Gender-Making forSudanese Nationals in Egypt” (online, Northeast African Studies 8.3 (2001) 47-68)Screening: Iron Ladies of Liberia (dir. Daniel Junge and Siatta Scott Johnson, 2007)4