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This handbook looks at cross-cultural work on harmful cultural
practices considered gendered forms of abuse of women. These
include Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), virginity testing,
hymenoplasty, genital cosmetic surgery and child marriage. Bringing
together comparative perspectives, intersectionality, and
interdisciplinarity, it uses feminist methodology and mixed
methods, with ethnography of central importance, to provide
holistic, grounded theorizing within a framework of transformative
research. Taking Female Genital Mutilation, a topical, contested
practice and making it a heuristic reference for related
procedures, makes the case for global action based on understanding
the complexity of harmful cultural practices that are contextually
differentiated and experienced in inter-sectional ways. But because
this phenomenon is enshrouded in matters of sensitivity and
prejudice, narratives of suffering are muted and even suppressed,
dismissed as indigenous ritual, or become ammunition for racist
organizing. Such conflicted and often opaque debates obstruct clear
vision of the scale of both problem and solution. Divided into 6
parts: • Discourses and Epistemological Faultlines • FGM and
Related Patriarchal Inscriptions • Gender and Genitalia •
Female Bodies and Body Politics: Economics, Law, Health, and Human
Rights • Placing Engagement, Innovation, Impact, Care • Words
and Texts to Shatter Silence and comprised of 24 newly written
chapters from experts around the world, this book will be of
interest to Scholars and students of nursing, social work, and
allied health more broadly as well as sociology, gender studies and
postcolonial studies.
This unique book will assist those who care for women and girls who
have had, or are at risk of having female genital mutilation. It
focuses on caring for both physical and psychological needs of the
vulnerable or suffering and maintains an understanding, holistic
and objective approach to the current situation. It contains colour
plates, illustrations, photos and graphs. Female Genital Mutilation
is a valuable reference for healthcare professionals and others
involved in social services, teaching, child protection and police
services. Caseworkers involved with asylum seekers and refugees,
children's charities, and policy makers and shapers will also find
it useful, as will researchers and academics.
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