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Making the Mark : Gender, Identity, and Genital Cutting /

Why do female genital cutting practices persist? How does circumcision affect the rights of girls in a culture where initiation forms the lynchpin of the ritual cycle at the core of defining gender, identity, and social and political status?

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Prazak, Miroslava (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2016.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Trouble with witchcraft
  • Boys lead
  • Girls follow
  • Something different
  • Consoling, feasting, and coming out
  • Talk, talk, talk
  • Where do we go from here?
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix : Bwirege circumcision sets.