Transcultural bodies : female genital cutting in global context

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Label

Transcultural bodies : female genital cutting in global context

Title remainder

female genital cutting in global context

Statement of responsibility

edited by Ylva Hernlund, Bettina Shell-Duncan

Contributor

• Hernlund, Ylva, 1962-
• Shell-Duncan, Bettina, 1963-

Subject

• SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies
• Afrika
• Anthropology, Cultural
• Beschneidung
• Circumcision, Female
• Electronic book
• Electronic books
• Female circumcision
• Female circumcision
• Infibulation
• Infibulation
• Kulturanthropologie
• MEDICAL -- Gynecology & Obstetrics
• Orgasm -- physiology
• SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Customs & Traditions
• SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Feminism & Feminist Theory
• SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gender Studies

Language

eng

Summary

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

Member of

• Ebook Central Academic Complete

Action

digitized

Cataloging source

E7B

Dewey number

392.1

Index

index present

LC call number

GN484

LC item number

.T734 2007eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

NLM call number

• 2008 H-227
• GN 484

NLM item number

T7715 2007