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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Bettina Shell-Duncan; Ylva Hernlund |
| ISBN: | 1555878717 9781555878719 1555879950 9781555879952 |
| OCLC Number: | 43952114 |
| Description: | viii, 349 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | 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. |
| Series Title: | Directions in applied anthropology. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Bettina Shell-Duncan, Ylva Hernlund. |
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