Transcultural bodies female genital cutting in global context /

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Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Hernlund, Ylva, 1962-, Shell-Duncan, Bettina, 1963-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2007.
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Table of Contents:
  • Transcultural positions : negotiating rights and culture / Ylva Hernlund and Bettina Shell-Duncan
  • Gender crusades : the female circumcision controversy in cultural perspective / Janice Boddy
  • A refuge from tradition and the refuge of tradition : on anti-circumcision paradigms / L. Amede Obiora
  • Female circumcision in Africa and beyond : the anthropology of a difficult issue / Aud Talle
  • Persistence of tradition or reassessment of cultural practices in exile? : discourses on female circumcision among and about Swedish Somalis / Sara Johnsdotter
  • Managing cultural diversity in Australia : legislating female circumcision, legislating communities / Juliet Rogers
  • Representing Africa in the Kasinga asylum case / Charles Piot
  • Seeking asylum, debating values, and setting precedents in the 1990s : the cases of Kassindja and Abankwah in the United States / Corinne A. Kratz
  • Making mandinga or making Muslims? : debating female circumcision, ethnicity, and Islam in Guinea-Bissau and Portugal / Michelle C. Johnson
  • Infibulation and the orgasm puzzle : sexual experiences of infibulated Eritrean women in rural Eritrea and Melbourne, Australia / Mansura Dopico
  • Experiencing sex in exile : can genitals change their gender? : on conceptions and experiences related to female genital cutting (FGC) among Somalis in Norway / R. Elise B. Johansen
  • "Ain't I a woman too?" : challenging myths of sexual dysfunction in circumcised women / Fuambai Ahmadu
  • The failure of pluralism? / Henrietta L. Moore.