Female Circumcision : : Multicultural Perspectives /

Female Circumcision : : Multicultural Perspectives / / ed. by Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf.

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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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG and UP eBook Package 2000-2015
MitwirkendeR:
Abdalla, Raqiya D.,
Abusharaf, Rogaia Mustafa,
Ahmed, Shahira,
Aldeeb Abu-Sahlieh, Sami A.,
Askew, Ian,
Diop, Nafissatou J.,
El Bashir, Hamid,
El Guindi, Fadwa,
Hadi, Amal Abdel,
Macklin, Audrey,
Mohamud, Asha,
Obiora, L. Amede,
Piot, Charles,
Radeny, Samson,
Ringheim, Karin,
HerausgeberIn:
Abusharaf, Rogaia Mustafa,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2013]
©2006
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
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Physical Description:1 online resource (296 p.) :; 2 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Chapter 1. Introduction: The Custom in Question
  • PART I. Local Contexts and Current Debates
  • Chapter 2. "Had This Been Your Face, Would You Leave It as Is?" Female Circumcision Among the Nubians of Egypt
  • Chapter 3. Male and Female Circumcision: The Myth of the Difference
  • PART II. African Campaigns to Eradicate Female Circumcision
  • Chapter 4. Community-Based Efforts to End Female Genital Mutilation in Kenya: Raising Awareness and Organizing Alternative Rites of Passage
  • Chapter 5. A Community of Women Empowered: The Story of Deir El Barsha
  • Chapter 6. Strategies for Encouraging the Abandonment of Female Genital Cutting: Experiences from Senegal, Burkina Paso, and Mali
  • Chapter 7. The Sudanese National Committee on the Eradication of Harmful Traditional Practices and the Campaign Against Female Genital Mutilation
  • Chapter 8. The Babiker Badri Scientific Association for Women's Studies and the Eradication of Female Circumcision in the Sudan
  • Chapter 9. "My Grandmother Called It the Three Feminine Sorrows": The Struggle of Women Against Female Circumcision in Somalia
  • PART III. Debates in Immigrant-Receiving Societies
  • Chapter 10. The Double-Edged Sword: Using the Criminal Law Against Female Genital Mutilation in Canada
  • Chapter 11 Representing Africa in the Kasinga Asylum Case
  • Afterword: Safe Harbor and Homage
  • Notes
  • References
  • Contributors
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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