ISBN: 0252072731

[SR: 2537930], Paperback, [EAN: 9780252072734], University of Illinois Press, University of Illinois Press, Book, [PU: University of Illinois Press], University of Illinois Press, Genital… Mehr…

[SR: 2537930], Paperback, [EAN: 9780252072734], University of Illinois Press, University of Illinois Press, Book, [PU: University of Illinois Press], University of Illinois Press, Genital Cutting and Transnational Sisterhood is a much-needed response to the ethnocentric and arrogant Western perceptions surrounding female genital cutting (FGC), often referred to as either female genital mutilation or female circumcision, but which includes a variety of practices of varying history, severity, geographical distribution and consequences. In five provocative essays, the contributors to this timely volume challenge representations of FGC through a range of perspectives: history, human rights, law, missionary feminism, cultural relativism, anthropology, and the intersex movement. Stanlie M. James is chair of the Afro-American Studies Department and associate professor of African American studies and women's studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She is a coeditor of Theorizing Black Feminisms. Claire C. Robertson is professor of history and women's studies at the Ohio State University and the author of Trouble Showed the Way: Women, Men, and Trade in the Nairobi Area, 1890-1990 and other books., 4762, Africa, 15812761, Central Africa, 15812771, East Africa, 15812791, North Africa, 15812781, Southern Africa, 15812801, West Africa, 4763, Algeria, 4997, Egypt, 4773, Ethiopia, 4781, Kenya, 4793, Nigeria, 4798, South Africa, 4799, Sudan, 4807, Zimbabwe, 9, History, 1000, Subjects, 283155, Books, 11244, Customs & Traditions, 11232, Social Sciences, 3377866011, Politics & Social Sciences, 1000, Subjects, 283155, Books, 11302, Ethnic Studies, 11298, Specific Demographics, 11232, Social Sciences, 3377866011, Politics & Social Sciences, 1000, Subjects, 283155, Books, 11332, Feminist Theory, 11325, Women's Studies, 3377866011, Politics & Social Sciences, 1000, Subjects, 283155, Books, 11235, Cultural, 11233, Anthropology, 3377866011, Politics & Social Sciences, 1000, Subjects, 283155, Books<

ISBN: 9780252072734

Paperback, [PU: University of Illinois Press], A much-needed response to the ethnocentric and arrogant Western perceptions surrounding female genital cutting, Sociology: Customs & Traditions

2005, ISBN: 9780252072734

DISPUTING U.S. POLEMICS, Softcover, Buch, [PU: University of Illinois Press]