Female "Circumcision" in Africa : Culture, Controversy, Change /

Though the issue of female genital cutting, or "circumcision," has become a nexus for debates on cultural relativism, human rights, patriarchal oppression, racism, and Western imperialism, the literature has been separated by diverse fields of study. In contrast, this volume brings togethe...

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Otros Autores: Abusharaf, Rogaia Mustafa (Contribuidor), Ahmadu, Fuambai (Contribuidor), Auko Muruli, Leunita (Contribuidor), Balk, Deborah (Contribuidor), Caldwell, John C. (Contribuidor), Caldwell, Pat (Contribuidor), Gosselin, Claudie (Contribuidor), Gruenbaum, Ellen (Contribuidor), Hernlund, Ylva (Contribuidor, Editor ), Johnson, Michelle C. (Contribuidor), Leonard, Lori (Contribuidor), Mackie, Gerry (Contribuidor), Mandara, Mairo Usman (Contribuidor), Obungu Obiero, Walter (Contribuidor), Orubuloye, I. O. (Contribuidor), Shell-Duncan, Bettina (Contribuidor, Editor ), Thomas, Lynn (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers, [2022]
Colección:Directions in Applied Anthropology: Adaptations and Innovations
Temas:
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Peace.
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1 Female "Circumcision" in Africa: Dimensions of the Practice and Debates
  • 2 Is Female "Circumcision" a Maladaptive Cultural Pattern?
  • 3 To Marry and Bear Children? The Demographic Consequences of Infibulation in Sudan
  • 4 Female "Circumcision" Among the Yoruba of Southwestern Nigeria: The Beginning of Change
  • 5 Female Genital Cutting in Nigeria: Views of Nigerian Doctors on the Medicalization Debate
  • 6 Women Without Choices: The Debate over Medicalization of Female Genital Cutting and Its Impact on a Northern Kenyan Community
  • 7 "Ngaitana (I Will Circumcise Myself)": Lessons from Colonial Campaigns to Ban Excision in Meru, Kenya
  • 8 Revisiting Feminist Discourses on Infibulation: Responses from Sudanese Feminists
  • 9 Adopting Female "Circumcision" in Southern Chad: The Experience of Myabé
  • 10 Handing over the Knife: Numu Women and the Campaign Against Excision in Mali
  • 11 Becoming a Muslim, Becoming a Person: Female "Circumcision," Religious Identity, and Personhood in Guinea-Bissau
  • 12 Cutting Without Ritual and Ritual Without Cutting: Female "Circumcision" and the Re-ritualization of Initiation in the Gambia
  • 13 Female Genital Cutting: The Beginning of the End
  • 14 Rites and Wrongs: An Insider/ Outsider Reflects on Power and Excision
  • Bibliography
  • The Contributors
  • Index
  • About the Book

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