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Transcultural bodies : female genital cutting in global context
- Title
- Transcultural bodies : female genital cutting in global context / edited by Ylva Hernlund, Bettina Shell-Duncan.
- Publication
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2007.
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- Description
- x, 373 p.; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-360) and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 07-5422
- ISBN
- 0813540259 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 9780813540252 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 0813540267 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780813540269 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2006025455
- OCLC
- 70839783
- 70839783
- Title
- Transcultural bodies : female genital cutting in global context / edited by Ylva Hernlund, Bettina Shell-Duncan.
- Imprint
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2007.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-360) and index.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Hernlund, Ylva, 1962-Shell-Duncan, Bettina, 1963-
- Research Call Number
- JFE 07-5422Sc E 08-494