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Genital cutting and transnational sisterhood : disputing U.S. polemics / edited by Stanlie M. James and Claire C. Robertson.

Title
Genital cutting and transnational sisterhood : disputing U.S. polemics / edited by Stanlie M. James and Claire C. Robertson.
Publication
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2002.

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Additional Authors
  • James, Stanlie M. (Stanlie Myrise)
  • Robertson, Claire C., 1944-
Description
169 p. : map; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Africa
  • Circumcision, Female
  • Clitoridectomy
  • Female circumcision
  • Feminism
  • Feminist theory > Africa
  • Feminist theory > United States
  • Infibulation
  • United States
  • Women's Rights
Genre/Form
Aufsatzsammlung.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Searching for "voices": feminism, anthropology, and the global debate over female genial operation / Christine J. Walley -- Getting beyond the Ew! factor: rethinking U.S. approaches to African female genital cutting / Claire C. Robertson -- Listening to other(ed) voices: reflections around female genital cutting / Stanlie M. James -- Female genital surgeries: eradication measures at the western local level, a cautionary tale / Isabelle R. Gunning -- "Cultural practice" or "reconstructive surgery"? U.S. genital cutting, the intersex movement, and medical double standards / Cheryl Chase -- Appendix. Advocacy organizations opposed to female genital cutting.
ISBN
0252027418 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2001005763
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library