| Availibility: | Available |
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| Creator: | Alice Walker and Pratibha Parmar |
| Area of focus: | Female Genital Mutilation |
| Content Warning Types: | Unknown |
| Format of resource: | Large paperback book |
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| Published Year: | 1993 |
| ISBN: | 0224039628 (on goodreads) and on amazon |
| Accessibility notes: | This book is relatively large and heavy |
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Description:
In “Possessing the Secret of Joy” Alice Walker brought the issue of female genital mutilation, a practice that affects 100 million women, to the attention of the world. Simultaneously, she was working on a TV documentary with British film maker Pratibha Parmar, to further expose the horrors of the process. This book is the story of the making of that film, a journey from California to England and Africa, and a journey of self-discovery.