Female Circumcision In Africa
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Female Circumcision In Africa
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Author : Bettina Shell-Duncan
language : en
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
Release Date : 2000
Female Circumcision In Africa written by Bettina Shell-Duncan and has been published by Lynne Rienner Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Social Science categories.
To ban excision in Meru, Kenya, Lynn Thomas
Female Genital Mutilation In Africa
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Author : Daniel Njoroge Karanja
language : en
Publisher: Xulon Press
Release Date : 2003-06
Female Genital Mutilation In Africa written by Daniel Njoroge Karanja and has been published by Xulon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-06 with History categories.
Prisoners Of Ritual
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Author : Hanny Lightfoot-Klein
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 1989
Prisoners Of Ritual written by Hanny Lightfoot-Klein and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This unique volume focuses on the psychosexual and social effects of female genital mutilation, an ancient, deeply entrenched custom saturating the larger part of Africa. Over a period of six years, Author Hanny Lightfoot-Klein trekked through outlying areas of Sudan, Kenya, and Egypt, where she lived with a number of African families. What she learned by way of in-depth personal interviews and firsthand observation has enabled her to add a previously unknown and often astonishing dimension to our knowledge of ritual practices and human sexuality. This valuable book will be extremely helpful to professionals and scholars in women's studies, social psychology, psychotherapy, psychiatry, gynecology, sexology, as well as cross-cultural and African studies. It should also interest anyone who is concerned with male circumcision in the United States.
Female Genital Mutilation Cutting
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Author : Kyoko Nakamura
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2023-02-11
Female Genital Mutilation Cutting written by Kyoko Nakamura and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-02-11 with Law categories.
This open access book shows how the adoption of global justice, such as eradication of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C), has given rise to controversy, resistance, and transformation at the national, regional, and grass-roots levels in African and Asian countries where FGM/C has been practiced. It provides readers with up-to-date information about the effects of the campaign to eradicate FGM/C and the present situation of those countries, to which preceding books on FGM/C have scarcely referred. Adopting “zero tolerance” as a policy of eradication, WHO and other UN agencies have opposed any type of FGM/C, and many African countries have criminalized the practice. Although the campaign is based on the human rights discourse which is shared globally, the controversies concerning eradication of FGM/C on the national level and the responses of communities on the local level in those countries are diverse and complicated. Various actors such as NGOs, government officials, religious leaders, medical workers, and local inhabitants are embroiled and negotiate with each other concerning its eradication. With this book, readers are provided with an in-depth analysis of the complicated controversies and responses of local communities, referring to their particular historical and social backgrounds. The book provides two chapters on FGM/C in Asian countries, where not many studies have done yet. It also presents readers with a study of the arguments and responses to FGM/C of African immigrants by Australian health-care professionals as well as a study of male circumcision eradication campaigns, which have been carried on in tandem with FGM/C eradication campaigns but still not have been successful. With its many elaborate case studies, this book is highly recommended to readers who seek an in-depth and up-to-date integrated overview of the FGM/C studies as well as studies on the applicability of global justice to local communities.
Cutting The Rose
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Author : Efua Dorkenoo
language : en
Publisher: Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center
Release Date : 1995
Cutting The Rose written by Efua Dorkenoo and has been published by Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Medical categories.
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Infibulation
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Author : Esther Hicks
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-01-16
Infibulation written by Esther Hicks and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-16 with Political Science categories.
Infibulation is the most extreme form of female circumci- sion. It plays an important role in the Islamic societies of northeastern Africa. Until now, the social significance and function of this practice has been poorly understood. In this volume, Hicks analyzes female circumcision as a cultural trait embedded in a historically traditional milieu and shows why it cannot be treated in isolation as a single issue destined for elimination.
Female Circumcision
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Author : Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2013-03-01
Female Circumcision written by Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-01 with Social Science categories.
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.
Confronting Female Genital Mutilation
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Author : Marie-Hélène Mottin-Sylla
language : en
Publisher: IDRC
Release Date : 2011-07-14
Confronting Female Genital Mutilation written by Marie-Hélène Mottin-Sylla and has been published by IDRC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-14 with Computers categories.
Excision, or female genital mutilation (FGM), in Africa is no longer the private concern only of women; it is a social and political issue that concerns both men and women and this book reports on an innovative research and action project amongst girls and boys in Burkina Faso, Mali, and Senegal. The project explores whether young people's use of information technology could contribute to the abandonment of FGM. In the age of the internet, beliefs and practices of FGM are shifting, particularly among young people. The results of this project show how, in the era of globalized citizenship, a cross-sectional vision that puts young people and gender at the center of development can produce real change.
Engendering Human Rights
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Author : O. Nnaemeka
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-10-03
Engendering Human Rights written by O. Nnaemeka and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-03 with Social Science categories.
Engendering Human Rights brings together distinguished scholars and feminist activists in a collection of essays on human rights in Africa. Contributors explore the formulating, monitoring, reporting, and implementation of human rights in Africa and the African Diaspora. The individual chapters examine how human rights frameworks and practices differ in various political, economic, social, cultural, racial and gendered contexts througout Africa.
The Twilight Of Cutting
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Author : Saida Hodic
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2016-11-22
The Twilight Of Cutting written by Saida Hodic and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-22 with Health & Fitness categories.
"The last three decades have witnessed a proliferation of NGOs engaging in new campaigns to end the practice of female genital cutting across Africa. These campaigns have in turn spurred new institutions, discourses, and political projects, bringing about unexpected social transformations, both intended and unintended. Consequently, cutting is waning across the continent. At the same time, these endings are being disavowed by cross-continental discourses that argue that cutting has become an object of a neocolonial, racist gaze and Western interventionist zeal. What does it mean to say that while cutting is ending, the Western discourse surrounding it is on the rise? And what kind of a feminist anthropology is needed in such a moment? The Twilight of Cutting examines these and other questions from the vantage point of Ghanaian feminist and reproductive health NGOs that have organized campaigns against cutting for over thirty years. The book looks at these NGOs not as solutions but as sites of 'problematization.' The purpose of understanding Ghanaian campaigns, their transnational and regional encounters, and the forms of governmentality they produce is not to charge them with providing answers to the question, how do we end cutting? Instead, it is to account for their work, their historicity, the life worlds and subjectivities they engender, and the modes of reflection, imminent critique, and opposition they set in motion"--Provided by publisher.