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Female "circumcision" in Africa : culture, controversy, and change / edited by Bettina Shell-Duncan, Ylva Hernlund.

Contributor(s): Shell-Duncan, Bettina, 1963- | Hernlund, Ylva, 1962-
Language: English Series: : Publisher: Boulder,Colo. : Lynne Rienner, 2000.Description: viii, 348p. : ill., maps, tables ; 23cm.ISBN: 1555879950
Contents:
Female "circumcision" in Africa: dimensions of the practice and debates / Bettina Shell-Duncan and Ylva Hernlund; Is female "circumcision" a maladaptive cultural pattern? / Ellen Gruenbaum; To marry and bear children? : the demographic consequences of infibulation in Sudan / Deborah Balk; Female "circumcision" among the Yoruba of southwestern Nigeria : the beginning of change / I. O. Orubuloye, Pat Caldwell, and John C. Caldwell; Female genital cutting in Nigeria : views of Nigerian doctors on the medicalization debate / Mairo Usman Mandara; Women without choices : the debate over medicalization of female genital cutting and its impact on a northern Kenyan community / Bettina Shell-Duncan, Walter Obungu Obiero, and Leunita Auko Muruli; "Ngaitana (I will circumcise myself)" : lessons from colonial campaigns to ban excision in Meru, Kenya / Lynn Thomas; Revisiting feminist discourses on infibulation : responses from Sudanese feminists / Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf; Adopting female "circumcision" in southern Chad : the experience of Myabé / Lori Leonard; Handing over the knife : Numu women and the campaign against excision in Mali / Claudie Gosselin; Becoming a Muslim, becoming a person : female "circumcision," religious identity, and personhood in Guinea-Bissau / Michelle C. Johnson; Cutting without ritual and ritual without cutting : female "circumcision" and the re-ritualization of initiation in the Gambia / Ylva Hernlund; Female genital cutting : the beginning of the end / Gerry Mackie; Rites and wrongs : an insider/outsider reflects on power and excision / Fuambai Ahmadu.

Includes bibliography (p. 313-330) and index.

Female "circumcision" in Africa: dimensions of the practice and debates / Bettina Shell-Duncan and Ylva Hernlund; Is female "circumcision" a maladaptive cultural pattern? / Ellen Gruenbaum; To marry and bear children? : the demographic consequences of infibulation in Sudan / Deborah Balk; Female "circumcision" among the Yoruba of southwestern Nigeria : the beginning of change / I. O. Orubuloye, Pat Caldwell, and John C. Caldwell; Female genital cutting in Nigeria : views of Nigerian doctors on the medicalization debate / Mairo Usman Mandara; Women without choices : the debate over medicalization of female genital cutting and its impact on a northern Kenyan community / Bettina Shell-Duncan, Walter Obungu Obiero, and Leunita Auko Muruli; "Ngaitana (I will circumcise myself)" : lessons from colonial campaigns to ban excision in Meru, Kenya / Lynn Thomas; Revisiting feminist discourses on infibulation : responses from Sudanese feminists / Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf; Adopting female "circumcision" in southern Chad : the experience of Myabé / Lori Leonard; Handing over the knife : Numu women and the campaign against excision in Mali / Claudie Gosselin; Becoming a Muslim, becoming a person : female "circumcision," religious identity, and personhood in Guinea-Bissau / Michelle C. Johnson; Cutting without ritual and ritual without cutting : female "circumcision" and the re-ritualization of initiation in the Gambia / Ylva Hernlund; Female genital cutting : the beginning of the end / Gerry Mackie; Rites and wrongs : an insider/outsider reflects on power and excision / Fuambai Ahmadu.

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