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30 out of 30 people found this review helpful.

Possessing the Secret of Joy: Putting a Face on Female Genital Mutilation

Date of Review:  Aug 5, 2000
The Bottom Line: Important political issue rendered with power and flair. This book can't help but touch you.
Review: Alice Walker is known for powerful prose which challenges us all to face the effects of our world?s racism and sexism head-on. In Walker?s renditions, we cannot avoid seeing the humanity in the victims of slavery, domestic violence, and other racist...
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  5.0

by: lernerj
Recommended to buy: Yes

Pros
characters, message, imagery
Cons
will be upsetting to most readers--but...
 
26 out of 26 people found this review helpful.

My Favorite Book

Date of Review:  Jan 8, 2006
The Bottom Line: Simply one of the greatest novels.
Review: Reading Alice Walker's Possessing the Secret of Joy was a most holy experience for me. Alas, this book had such an impact upon me that I made the book part of the subject of my senior capstone thesis when I was in college.Alice Walker is by far my...
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  5.0

by: pierretascher
Recommended to buy: Yes

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Beautiful, simply and to the core.
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21 out of 21 people found this review helpful.

Inspiring, Compassionate, Painful. A Pure Delight!

Date of Review:  Jan 27, 2000
Review: No matter how much you think you know about the horrifying procedure of female circumcision, you don't know enough! Alice Walker has created a phenomenal character who has experienced this terrifying and confusing procedure, one based on what could...
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  5.0

by: AmberJean
Recommended to buy: Yes

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insightful, powerful, compelling
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sometimes it hurts
 
13 out of 13 people found this review helpful.

Resistance

Date of Review:  Jan 10, 2002
The Bottom Line: I highly recommend it. Resistance is the Secret of Joy
Review: Alice Walker, author of POSSESSING THE SECRET OF JOY tells a story of female circumcision among a group of people in which the whole concept is based in tradition and female domination.

This tradition is brutally abusive and detrimental to...
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  4.0

by: dawsondmd
Recommended to buy: Yes

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Brings light on real issues Dear and...
Cons
a little too descriptive - unneccesary
 
6 out of 6 people found this review helpful.

One woman's life struggle (female circumcision)

Date of Review:  Nov 20, 2000
The Bottom Line: A powerful, moving, and at times very disturbing story.
Review: This review reveals some of the plot details

What a powerful and moving story; it is just sad to know that those who need most to read a story like this one will not. Female circumcision is still to this day widely practiced and growing at...
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  5.0

by: egab01
Recommended to buy: Yes

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Powerful story. Very disturbing topic.
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Very complex, can be difficult to...
 
4 out of 4 people found this review helpful.

Joyfully painful reading

Date of Review:  Dec 18, 1999
Review: This is the first book I have read by Alice Walker (though I know she did The Color Purple), and it definitely won't be my last.

The narrative is told in an imaginative, and at times painful manner. Themes such as revenge, immigration, lack...
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by: energy81
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Courage & Madness

Date of Review:  Dec 20, 1999
Review: With this excellent novel, Alice Walker has done for the subject
of FGM (female genital mutilation) what Thomas Hardy did for that of the
seduction of young, poor women. Until "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" was
published, any female...
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by: ihavewings
Recommended to buy: Yes

Pros
opening needed discussion
Cons
not enough homework
 

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