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Female Circumcision - Multicultural Perspectives (Paperback)
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Female Circumcision - Multicultural Perspectives (Paperback)
Series: Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
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Female Circumcision Multicultural Perspectives Edited by Rogaia
Mustafa Abusharaf "A provocative book, clearly written for both
general and scholarly audiences."--"American Ethnologist"
"Abusharaf's integrated collection of articles presents current
international, cultural, and ideological debates as well as
accounts of campaigns against the practices in several countries in
Africa and of their impact in Europe and North America. . . . A
provocative book, clearly written for both general and scholarly
audiences."--"American Ethnologist" "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. Rogaia
Mustafa Abusharaf is Senior Research Associate at the Pembroke
Center for Teaching and Research on Women at Brown University. She
is the author of "Wanderings: Sudanese Migrants and Exiles in North
America." Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights 2006 296 pages 6 x 9
2 illus. ISBN 978-0-8122-1941-8 Paper $24.95s 16.50 ISBN
978-0-8122-0102-4 Ebook $24.95s 16.50 World Rights Anthropology,
Women's/Gender Studies Short copy: "Female Circumcision" brings
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 U.S. and
the human rights efforts to eradicate the practice.
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