The Circumcision of Women
Title | The Circumcision of Women PDF eBook |
Author | Olayinka Koso-Thomas |
Publisher | Zed Books |
Pages | 112 |
Release | 1987-05-15 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780862327019 |
1. Why circumcise women?
Female Mutilation
Title | Female Mutilation PDF eBook |
Author | Hilary Burrage |
Publisher | New Holland Publishers |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | Female circumcision |
ISBN | 9781742576077 |
This book comprises a collection of narratives by people whose lives have been touched by female genital mutilation (FMG), across five continents.
Why Aren't Jewish Women Circumcised?
Title | Why Aren't Jewish Women Circumcised? PDF eBook |
Author | Shaye J. D. Cohen |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 336 |
Release | 2005-09-06 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0520212509 |
"This book represents engaged scholarship at its very best. Cohen presents the vast range of texts at his command with brevity and wit. Elegantly written, this is a very stimulating book that is sure to provoke admiration, discussion, and controversy."—David Biale, author of Cultures of the Jews "A distinguished and wide-ranging work of scholarship. Cohen’s definitive discussion of the covenant of circumcision enhances our understanding of Jewish identity formation, women’s status in Judaism, Jewish-Christian polemic, and the impact of diverse cultural environments on the evolution of Jewish tradition."—Judith R. Baskin, author of Midrashic Women
Cultural Relativism in the Face of the West
Title | Cultural Relativism in the Face of the West PDF eBook |
Author | B. Billet |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 235 |
Release | 2016-04-30 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1137119136 |
Billet examines the debate between the uniform application of universal human rights and cultural relativism. Billet outlines the foundations and evolution of both schools of thought. The book also examines case studies that involve either women or children and are typically viewed by the West as violations of fundamental human rights.
Female Circumcision
Title | Female Circumcision PDF eBook |
Author | Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf |
Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press |
Pages | 297 |
Release | 2013-03-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0812201027 |
Bolokoli, khifad, tahara, tahoor, qudiin, irua, bondo, kuruna, negekorsigin, and kene-kene are a few of the terms used in local African languages to denote a set of cultural practices collectively known as female circumcision. Practiced in many countries across Africa and Asia, this ritual is hotly debated. Supporters regard it as a central coming-of-age ritual that ensures chastity and promotes fertility. Human rights groups denounce the procedure as barbaric. It is estimated that between 100 million and 130 million girls and women today have undergone forms of this genital surgery. Female Circumcision gathers 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 United States, and the human rights efforts to eradicate the practice. This work brings African women's voices into the discussion, foregrounds indigenous processes of social and cultural change, and demonstrates the manifold linkages between respect for women's bodily integrity, the empowerment of women, and democratic modes of economic development. This volume does not focus narrowly on female circumcision as a set of ritualized surgeries sanctioned by society. Instead, the contributors explore a chain of connecting issues and processes through which the practice is being transformed in local and transnational contexts. The authors document shifts in local views to highlight processes of change and chronicle the efforts of diverse communities as agents in the process of cultural and social transformation.
Female Genital Mutilation
Title | Female Genital Mutilation PDF eBook |
Author | Center for Reproductive Law & Policy |
Publisher | Zed Books |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 2000-06 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 9781856497732 |
1. Background and history
Female Circumcision and Clitoridectomy in the United States
Title | Female Circumcision and Clitoridectomy in the United States PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah B. Rodriguez |
Publisher | Boydell & Brewer |
Pages | 294 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Health & Fitness |
ISBN | 158046498X |
In 'Female Circumcision and Clitoridectomy in the United States', Sarah Rodriguez presents an engaging and surprising history of surgeries on the clitoris, revealing how medical views of the female body and female sexuality have changed, and in some cases not changed, throughout the last century and a half.