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Female "circumcision" in Africa : culture, controversy, and change
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- Creator
- edited by Bettina Shell-Duncan, Ylva Hernlund
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Boulder, Colo. : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2000
- Physical Details
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- viii, 349 pages : map ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781555878719, 1555878717
- OCLC
- ocm43952114
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-330) and index.
- Female "circumcision" in Africa: dimensions of the practice and debates / Bettina Shell-Duncan and Ylva Hernlund -- Is female "circumcision" a maladaptive cultural pattern? / Ellen Gruenbaum -- To marry and bear children? the demographic consequences of infibulation in Sudan / Deborah Balk -- Female "circumcision" among the Yoruba of southwestern Nigeria: the beginning of change / I.O. Orubuloye, Pat Caldwell, and John C. Caldwell -- Female genital cutting in Nigeria: views of Nigerian doctors on the medicalization debate / Mairo Usman Mandara -- Women without choices: the debate over medicalization of female genital cutting and its impact on a northern Kenyan community / Bettina Shell-Duncan, Walter Obungu Obiero, and Leunita Auko Muruli -- "Ngaitana (I will circumcise myself)": lessons from colonial campaigns to ban excision in Meru, Kenya / Lynn Thomas -- Revisiting feminist discourses on infibulation: responses from Sudanese feminists / Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf -- Adopting female "circumcision" in southern Chad: the experience of Myabé / Lori Leonard -- Handing over the knife: Numu women and the campaign against excision in Mali / Claudie Gosselin -- Becoming a Muslim, becoming a person: female "circumcision," religious identity, and personhood in Guinea-Bissau / Michelle C. Johnson -- Cutting without ritual and ritual without cutting: female "circumcision" and the re-ritualization of initiation in the Gambia / Ylva Hernlund -- Female genital cutting: the beginning of the end / Gerry Mackie -- Rites and wrongs: and insider/outsider reflects on power and excision / Fuambai Ahmadu