Transcultural bodies : female genital cutting in global context /

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Female "circumcision" or, more precisely, female genital cutting (FGC), remains an important cultural practice in many African countries, often serving as a coming-of-age ritual. It is also a practice that has generated international dispute and continues to be at the center of debates ove...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Hernlund, Ylva, 1962-, Shell-Duncan, Bettina, 1963-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2007.
Temas:
Female genital mutilation.
Infibulation.
Ethnology.
Anthropology, Cultural
Circumcision, Female
Orgasm > physiology
Ethnologie.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Customs & Traditions.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Gender Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Feminism & Feminist Theory.
MEDICAL > Gynecology & Obstetrics.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
Ethnology
Female circumcision
Infibulation
Kulturanthropologie
Beschneidung > Frau
Afrika
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Transcultural positions : negotiating rights and culture / Ylva Hernlund and Bettina Shell-Duncan
  • Gender crusades : the female circumcision controversy in cultural perspective / Janice Boddy
  • A refuge from tradition and the refuge of tradition : on anti-circumcision paradigms / L. Amede Obiora
  • Female circumcision in Africa and beyond : the anthropology of a difficult issue / Aud Talle
  • Persistence of tradition or reassessment of cultural practices in exile? : discourses on female circumcision among and about Swedish Somalis / Sara Johnsdotter
  • Managing cultural diversity in Australia : legislating female circumcision, legislating communities / Juliet Rogers
  • Representing Africa in the Kasinga asylum case / Charles Piot
  • Seeking asylum, debating values, and setting precedents in the 1990s : the cases of Kassindja and Abankwah in the United States / Corinne A. Kratz
  • Making mandinga or making Muslims? : debating female circumcision, ethnicity, and Islam in Guinea-Bissau and Portugal / Michelle C. Johnson
  • Infibulation and the orgasm puzzle : sexual experiences of infibulated Eritrean women in rural Eritrea and Melbourne, Australia / Mansura Dopico
  • Experiencing sex in exile : can genitals change their gender? : on conceptions and experiences related to female genital cutting (FGC) among Somalis in Norway / R. Elise B. Johansen
  • "Ain't I a woman too?" : challenging myths of sexual dysfunction in circumcised women / Fuambai Ahmadu
  • The failure of pluralism? / Henrietta L. Moore.

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