Female circumcision : multicultural perspectives / edited by Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf
- Bib ID:
- 3999391
- Format:
- Book
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- Description:
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- Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2006
- vi, [289] p. : 23 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9780812239249
- 0812239245
- 9780812219418
- 0812219414
- Series:
- Pennsylvania studies in human rights
- Summary:
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"Female Circumcision gathers together African activists to examine the issue within its various cultural and historical contexts, the debates on circumcision regarding African refugee and immigrant populations in the United States, and the human rights efforts to eradicate the practice. This work brings African women's voices into the discussion, foregrounds indigenous processes of social and cultural change, and demonstrates the manifold linkages between respect for women's bodily integrity, the empowerment of women, and democratic modes of economic development."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- Machine derived contents note: 1. Introduction: The Custom in Question i
- Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf
- Part I: Local Contexts and Current Debates
- 2. "Had This Been Your Face, Would You Leave It as Is?" Female
- Circumcision Among Nubians of Egypt 27
- Fadwa El Guindi
- 3. Male and Female Circumcision: The Myth of the Difference 47
- Sami A. Aldeeb Abu-Sahlieh
- Part II: African Campaigns to Eradicate Female Circumcision
- 4. Community-Based Efforts to End Female Genital Mutilation
- in Kenya: Raising Awareness and Organizing Alternative Rites
- of Passage 75
- Asha Mohamud, Samson Radeny, and Karin Ringheim
- 5. A Community of Women Empowered: The Story of
- Deir El Barsha 104
- Amal Abdel Hadi
- 6. Strategies for Encouraging the Abandonment of Female Genital
- Cutting: Experiences from Senegal, Burkina Faso, and Mali 125
- Nafissatou I. Diop and Ian Askew
- 7. The Sudanese National Committee on the Eradication of Harmful
- Traditional Practices and the Campaign Against Female
- Genital Mutilation 142
- Hamid El Bashir
- 8. The Babiker Badri Scientific Association for Women's
- Studies and the Eradication of Female Circumcision
- in the Sudan 171
- Shahira Ahmed
- 9. "My Grandmother Called It the Three Feminine Sorrows":
- The Struggle of Women Against Female Circumcision
- in Somalia 187
- Raqiya D. Abdalla
- Part III: Debates in Immigrant-Receiving Societies
- 10. The Double-Edged Sword: Using the Criminal Law Against Female
- Genital Mutilation 207
- Audrey Macklin
- 11. Representing Africa in the Kasinga Asylum Case 224
- Charles Piot
- 12. Afterword: Safe Harbor and Homage 234
- L. Amede Obiora.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-272) and index.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Abusharaf, Rogaia Mustafa
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
- 2006
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