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2. Bodily Integrity and the Politics of Circumcision: Culture, Controversy and Change
by George C Denniston
How is it that, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, it is still possible for males and females to be denied their inherent right to keep ... More
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3. Bodily Integrity and the Politics of Circumcision
by George C Denniston (Editor), Pia Grassivaro Gallo (Editor), Frederick M Hodges (Editor)
Every year 13.3 millions boys and 2 million girls are subjected to circumcision, the involuntary removal of part or all of their external sex organs. ... More
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4. Circumcision
by Anne Briggs, William Emory (Photographer)
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8. The Female Circumcision Controversy: An Anthropological Perspective
by Ellen Gruenbaum
Informed by five years of fieldwork in Sudan, the author studies indigenous and "outsider" perspectives on the traditional practice of female genital ... More
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9. Transcultural Bodies: Female Genital Cutting in Global Context
by Ylva Hernlund (Editor), Bettina Shell-Duncan (Editor)
Bringing together thirteen essays, "Transcultural Bodies "provides an ethnographically rich exploration of FGC among African diasporas in the United ... More
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11. Female Genital Mutilation: Legal, Cultural and Medical Issues
by Rosemarie Skaine
Female genital mutilation (FGM) occurs in many parts of the world, especially in Africa. It is a cultural practice thought to have been established ... More
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12. Female Genital Cutting, Women's Health and Development: The Role of the World Bank
by Khama Rogo, Tshiya Subayi, Nahid Toubia
This working paper addresses the negative impacts of female genital cutting in economies and the societies of countries where this brutal practice is ... More
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14. Cutting the Rose: Female Genital Mutilation: The Practice and Its Prevention
by Efua Dorkenoo
This examination provides facts about the negative psychological and physical effects that female genital mutilation has on women, a cross-cultural ... More
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16. Female Genital Cutting: Cultural Conflict in the Global Community
by Professor Elizabeth Heger Boyle
The practice of female genital cutting, sometimes referred to as female circumcision and common in a number of African states, has attracted ... More
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18. The Day Kadi Lost Part of Her Life
by Isabel Ramos Rioja, Kim Manresa (Photographer), Isabel Ramos Rioja
.We 'meet' Kadi on the morning she is to be circumcised when she is still blissfully ignorant of what is about to happen to her. We see her at home, ... More
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19. Gender Rituals: Female Initiation in Melanesia
by Professor Nancy Lutkehaus (Editor), Paul B Roscoe (Editor)
This volume draws together ethnographies of female initiation rites in Melanesia which require anthropologists to rethink their analysis of ... More
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20. Women's Rites Versus Women's Rights: A Studyof Circumcision Among the Ketu Yoruba of South Western Nigeria
by Emmanuel Babatunde, Niara Sudarkasa (Introduction by)
The outpouring of western concern over the issue of female circumcision offers a case study in how well-intentioned efforts of Americans to improve ... More
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21. Warrior Marks: Female Genital Mutilation and the Sexual Blinding of Women
Part memoir, part travelogue, part photographic journey, this nonfiction follow-up to Walker's bestselling novel Possessing the Secret of Joy is an ... More
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22. Warrior Marks: Female Genital Mutilation and the Sexual Blinding of Women
In her bestselling novel Possessing the Secret of Joy, Walker opened the door to a long-hidden secret by bringing female genital multilation to ... More
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25. Female Circumcision and the Politics of Knowledge: African Women in Imperialist Discourses
by Obioma Nnaemeka (Editor)
By exposing the colonial and imperial discourses that undergird the global debate on female circumcision, this important work creates a space for the ... More
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