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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.

Format

Book

Published

New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2007.

Description

x, 373 p. ; 24 cm.

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Other contributors

Hernlund, Ylva, 1962- Shell-Duncan, Bettina, 1963-

Notes

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.

Kinsey subjects

Anthropology. Genital ritual mutilations--Female. Infibulation--Female. Orgasm--Female.

ISBN

0813540259 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780813540252 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0813540267 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780813540269 (pbk. : alk. paper)