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Female circumcision : multicultural perspectives /
Bolokoli, khifad, tahara, tahoor, qudiin, irua, bondo, kuruna, negekorsigin, and kene-kene are a few of the terms used in local African languages to denote a set of cultural practices collectively known as female circumcision. Practiced in many countries across Africa and Asia, this ritual is hotly...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
©2006.
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| Colección: | Pennsylvania studies in human rights.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : The custom in question / Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf
- "Had this been your face, would you leave it as it is?" Female circumcision among Nubians of Egypt / Fadwa El Guindi
- Male and female circumcision : the myth of the difference / Sami A. Aldeeb Abu-Sahlieh
- Community-based efforts to end female genital mutilation in Kenya : raising awareness and organizing alternative rites of passage / Asha Mohamud, Samson Radeny, and Karin Ringheim
- A community of women empowered : the story of Deir El Basha / Amal Abdel Hadi
- Strategies for encouraging the abandonment of female genital cutting : experiences from Senegal, Burkina Faso, and Mali / Nafissatou J. Diop and Ian Askew
- The Sudanese National Committee on the Eradication of Harmful Traditional Practices and the campaign against female genital mutilation / Hamid El Bashir
- The Babiker Badri Scientific Association for Women's Studies and the eradication of female circumcision in the Sudan / Shahira Ahmed
- "My grandmother called it the three feminine sorrows" : the struggle of women against female circumcision in Somalia / Raqiya D. Abdalla
- The double-edged sword : using the criminal law against female genital mutilation / Audrey Macklin
- Representing Africa in the Kasinga Asylum case / Charles Piot
- Afterword : Safe harbor and homage / L. Amede Obiora.