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Female Circumcision
Author | : Mary Nyangweso,Mary Nyangweso Wangila |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Circumcision |
ISBN | : UCSC:32106018887528 |
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A Kenyan woman theologian--"an insider"--examines arguments for and against the controversial practice of female circumcision. Based on her interviews with fifty Kenyan women representing Christianity, Islam, African Initiated Churches, and traditional religion, Wangila emphasizes the importance of understanding the gender relationships and cultural beliefs behing the practice and the important role played by religion.
Female Circumcision
Author | : Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf |
Publsiher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2013-03-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780812201024 |
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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 debated. Supporters regard it as a central coming-of-age ritual that ensures chastity and promotes fertility. Human rights groups denounce the procedure as barbaric. It is estimated that between 100 million and 130 million girls and women today have undergone forms of this genital surgery. Female Circumcision gathers together African activists to examine the issue within its various cultural and historical contexts, the debates on circumcision regarding African refugee and immigrant populations in the United States, and the human rights efforts to eradicate the practice. This work brings African women's voices into the discussion, foregrounds indigenous processes of social and cultural change, and demonstrates the manifold linkages between respect for women's bodily integrity, the empowerment of women, and democratic modes of economic development. This volume does not focus narrowly on female circumcision as a set of ritualized surgeries sanctioned by society. Instead, the contributors explore a chain of connecting issues and processes through which the practice is being transformed in local and transnational contexts. The authors document shifts in local views to highlight processes of change and chronicle the efforts of diverse communities as agents in the process of cultural and social transformation.
Female Genital Mutilation
Author | : Center for Reproductive Law & Policy |
Publsiher | : Zed Books |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2000-06 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1856497739 |
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Transcultural Bodies
Author | : Ylva Hernlund,Bettina Shell-Duncan |
Publsiher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 387 |
Release | : 2007-06-07 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780813541389 |
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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 over women's rights, the limits of cultural pluralism, the balance of power between local cultures, international human rights, and feminist activism. In our increasingly globalized world, these practices have also begun immigrating to other nations, where transnational complexities vex debates about how to resolve the issue. Bringing together thirteen essays, Transcultural Bodies provides an ethnographically rich exploration of FGC among African diasporas in the United Kingdom, Europe, and Australia. Contributors analyze changes in ideologies of gender and sexuality in immigrant communities, the frequent marginalization of African women's voices in debates over FGC, and controversies over legislation restricting the practice in immigrant populations.
Female circumcision in Africa
Author | : Bettina Shell-Duncan,Ylva Hernlund |
Publsiher | : Lynne Rienner Publishers |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1555879950 |
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To ban excision in Meru, Kenya, Lynn Thomas
Female Genital Mutilation
Author | : Comfort Momoh |
Publsiher | : Radcliffe Publishing |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Clitoridectomy |
ISBN | : 1857756932 |
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Female genital mutilation (FGM) is regarded as either a human rights violation or as female circumcision, a traditional cultural practice in some African and Islamic countries. A UK public health /FGM consultant who works with immigrants and advocates for its eradication introduces a dozen chapters examining religious, legal, ethical, and health aspects. For caseworkers, policy makers, and academics, the reader includes diagrams of types of FGM, data, a glossary, support advice and resources. Published by Radcliffe Medical Press, Ltd. Distributed in the US by BookMasters. Annotation :2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Female Circumcision and Clitoridectomy in the United States
Author | : Sarah B. Rodriguez |
Publsiher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 9781580464987 |
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In 'Female Circumcision and Clitoridectomy in the United States', Sarah Rodriguez presents an engaging and surprising history of surgeries on the clitoris, revealing how medical views of the female body and female sexuality have changed, and in some cases not changed, throughout the last century and a half.
Cultural Relativism in the Face of the West
Author | : B. Billet |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 2016-04-30 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781137119131 |
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Billet examines the debate between the uniform application of universal human rights and cultural relativism. Billet outlines the foundations and evolution of both schools of thought. The book also examines case studies that involve either women or children and are typically viewed by the West as violations of fundamental human rights.