LEADER 05367nam 22006255 450 001 9910787519503321 005 20230808232711.0 010 $a0-8122-0102-7 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812201024 035 $a(CKB)2670000000418331 035 $a(EBL)3442213 035 $a(DE-B1597)448955 035 $a(OCoLC)979741096 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812201024 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442213 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000418331 100 $a20190708d2013 fg 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aFemale Circumcision $eMulticultural Perspectives /$fRogaia Mustafa Abusharaf 210 1$aPhiladelphia :$cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,$d[2013] 210 4$dİ2006 215 $a1 online resource (296 p.) 225 0 $aPennsylvania Studies in Human Rights 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-8122-1941-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [253]-272) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tChapter 1. Introduction: The Custom in Question /$rAbusharaf, Rogaia Mustafa --$tPART I. Local Contexts and Current Debates --$tChapter 2. "Had This Been Your Face, Would You Leave It as Is?" Female Circumcision Among the Nubians of Egypt /$rEl Guindi, Fadwa --$tChapter 3. Male and Female Circumcision: The Myth of the Difference /$rAldeeb Abu-Sahlieh, Sami A. --$tPART II. African Campaigns to Eradicate Female Circumcision --$tChapter 4. Community-Based Efforts to End Female Genital Mutilation in Kenya: Raising Awareness and Organizing Alternative Rites of Passage /$rMohamud, Asha / Radeny, Samson / Ringheim, Karin --$tChapter 5. A Community of Women Empowered: The Story of Deir El Barsha /$rHadi, Amal Abdel --$tChapter 6. Strategies for Encouraging the Abandonment of Female Genital Cutting: Experiences from Senegal, Burkina Paso, and Mali /$rDiop, Nafissatou J. / Askew, Ian --$tChapter 7. The Sudanese National Committee on the Eradication of Harmful Traditional Practices and the Campaign Against Female Genital Mutilation /$rEl Bashir, Hamid --$tChapter 8. The Babiker Badri Scientific Association for Women's Studies and the Eradication of Female Circumcision in the Sudan /$rAhmed, Shahira --$tChapter 9. "My Grandmother Called It the Three Feminine Sorrows": The Struggle of Women Against Female Circumcision in Somalia /$rAbdalla, Raqiya D. --$tPART III. Debates in Immigrant-Receiving Societies --$tChapter 10. The Double-Edged Sword: Using the Criminal Law Against Female Genital Mutilation in Canada /$rMacklin, Audrey --$tChapter 11 Representing Africa in the Kasinga Asylum Case /$rPiot, Charles --$tAfterword: Safe Harbor and Homage /$rObiora, L. Amede --$tNotes --$tReferences --$tContributors --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aBolokoli, khifad, tahara, tahoor, qudiin, irua, bondo, kuruna, negekorsigin, and kene-kene are a few of the terms used in local African languages to denote a set of cultural practices collectively known as female circumcision. Practiced in many countries across Africa and Asia, this ritual is hotly debated. Supporters regard it as a central coming-of-age ritual that ensures chastity and promotes fertility. Human rights groups denounce the procedure as barbaric. It is estimated that between 100 million and 130 million girls and women today have undergone forms of this genital surgery. Female Circumcision gathers together African activists to examine the issue within its various cultural and historical contexts, the debates on circumcision regarding African refugee and immigrant populations in the United States, and the human rights efforts to eradicate the practice. This work brings African women's voices into the discussion, foregrounds indigenous processes of social and cultural change, and demonstrates the manifold linkages between respect for women's bodily integrity, the empowerment of women, and democratic modes of economic development. This volume does not focus narrowly on female circumcision as a set of ritualized surgeries sanctioned by society. Instead, the contributors explore a chain of connecting issues and processes through which the practice is being transformed in local and transnational contexts. The authors document shifts in local views to highlight processes of change and chronicle the efforts of diverse communities as agents in the process of cultural and social transformation. 410 0$aPennsylvania Studies in Human Rights 606 $aFemale genital mutilation$zAfrica 606 $aFemale genital mutilation$xMoral and ethical aspects$zAfrica 606 $aFemale genital mutilation$zAfrica$xPrevention 610 $aAnthropology. 610 $aCaregiving. 610 $aFolklore. 610 $aGender Studies. 610 $aHealth. 610 $aLinguistics. 610 $aMedicine. 610 $aWomen's Studies. 615 0$aFemale genital mutilation 615 0$aFemale genital mutilation$xMoral and ethical aspects 615 0$aFemale genital mutilation$xPrevention. 676 $a391.2096 702 $aAbusharaf$b Rogaia Mustafa 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910787519503321 996 $aFemale Circumcision$93697088 997 $aUNINA