The Female Circumcision Controversy : : An Anthropological Perspective / / Ellen Gruenbaum.
To the Western eye, there is something jarringly incongruous, even shocking, about the image of a six-year-old girl being held down by loving relatives so that her genitals can be cut. Yet two million girls experience this each year. Most Westerners, upon learning of the practice of female circumcis...
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Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2015] ©2001 |
Year of Publication: | 2015 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 p.) :; 8 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: Grappling with the "Female Circumcision" Controversy
- Chapter 1. Patriarchy
- Chapter 2. Ritual and Meaning
- Chapter 3. Marriage and Morality
- Chapter 4. Ethnicity
- Chapter 5. Sexuality
- Chapter 6. Economic Development
- Chapter 7. Change
- Chapter 8. Involvement
- Appendix. Organizations That Focus on Female Genital Cutting Issues
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments