Female Circumcision : Multicultural Perspectives.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- 1: Introduction: The Custom in Question -- Part I: Local Contexts and Current Debates -- 2: "Had This Been Your Face, Would You Leave It as Is?" Female Circumcision Among the Nubians of Egypt -- 3: Male and Female Circumcision: The Myth of the Difference -- Part II: African Campaigns to Eradicate Female Circumcision -- 4: Community-Based Efforts to End Female Genital Mutilation in Kenya: Raising Awareness and Organizing Alternative Rites of Passage -- 5: A Community of Women Empowered: The Story of Deir El Barsha -- 6: Strategies for Encouraging the Abandonment of Female Genital Cutting: Experiences from Senegal, Burkina Faso, and Mali -- 7: The Sudanese National Committee on the Eradication of Harmful Traditional Practices and the Campaign Against Female Genital Mutilation -- 8: The Babiker Badri Scientific Association for Women's Studies and the Eradication of Female Circumcision in the Sudan -- 9: "My Grandmother Called It the Three Feminine Sorrows":The Struggle of Women Against Female Circumcision in Somalia -- Part III: Debates in Immigrant-Receiving Societies -- 10: The Double-Edged Sword: Using the Criminal Law Against Female Genital Mutilation in Canada -- 11: Representing Africa in the Kasinga Asylum Case -- 12: Afterword: Safe Harbor and Homage -- Notes -- References -- Contributors -- Index -- Acknowledgments.

Female Circumcision brings together African activists to examine the issue within its various cultural and historical contexts, the debates on circumcision regarding African refugee and immigrant populations in the U.S. and the human rights efforts to eradicate the practice.

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