Warrior Marks

Warrior Marks
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AuthorAlice Walker
Pratibha Parmar
SubjectFemale genital mutilation
PublisherHarcourt Brace
Publication date
1993
Pages373 pp.
ISBN978-0-15-100061-6
OCLC29162963

Warrior Marks: Female Genital Mutilation and the Sexual Blinding of Women is a 1993 book by Alice Walker with Pratibha Parmar, who made an award-winning documentary of the same name. Following on from her 1992 novel Possessing the Secret of Joy, Walker undertakes a journey to parts of Africa where clitoridectomy is still practised. Warrior Marks is a harrowing work as Walker interviews women who have had the operation done and finally interviews a womancircumcised herselfwho performs the operation.