Female circumcision
Subtitle: multicultural perspectives / edited by Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf.
Contributors: Abusharaf, Rogaia Mustafa.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9780812239249; 9780812239249
Subjects: Female circumcision -- Africa; Female circumcision -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Africa; Female circumcision -- Africa -- Prevention
Description: "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."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.