LEADER 04559nam 2200661 a 450 001 9910782510303321 005 20230808232352.0 010 $a1-281-09256-8 010 $a9786611092566 010 $a0-8135-4138-7 024 7 $a10.36019/9780813541389 035 $a(CKB)1000000000688945 035 $a(EBL)320730 035 $a(OCoLC)476118279 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000311870 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11205899 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000311870 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10330763 035 $a(PQKB)10737212 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC320730 035 $a(OCoLC)437192948 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse8213 035 $a(DE-B1597)530193 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780813541389 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL320730 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10202546 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL109256 035 $a(OCoLC)647686434 035 $a(OCoLC)1163878600 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000688945 100 $a20060803d2007 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aTranscultural bodies$b[electronic resource] $efemale genital cutting in global context /$fedited by Ylva Hernlund, Bettina Shell-Duncan 210 $aNew Brunswick, N.J. $cRutgers University Press$dc2007 215 $a1 online resource (386 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8135-4025-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 331-360) and index. 327 $aTranscultural 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. 330 $aFemale "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. 606 $aFemale genital mutilation 606 $aInfibulation 615 0$aFemale genital mutilation. 615 0$aInfibulation. 676 $a392.1 701 $aHernlund$b Ylva$f1962-$01493664 701 $aShell-Duncan$b Bettina$f1963-$01493665 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910782510303321 996 $aTranscultural bodies$93716742 997 $aUNINA