The girl with three legs
Subtitle: a memoir
By: Soraya Miré
Publisher: Lawrence Hill Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 386
ISBN-13: 9781569767139
Subjects: Prevention; Psychological aspects; Social aspects; Biography; Female circumcision; Rites and ceremonies; Women
Description: A personal story of female genital mutilation. Mire reveals what it means to grow up in a traditional Somali family, where girls' and women's basic human rights are violated on a daily basis. She describes FGM is the ultimate child abuse, a ritual of mutilation handed down from mother to daughter and protected by the word "culture."
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: A daughter of Africa, 1960-1979. New beginning; title: Whispering voices; title: Smoke rising from her ears; title: White turban man; title: The girl with three legs; title: Grandmother's shrouding; title: The secret house and the ghost house; title: The sound of the scissors; title: Betrayal; title: Learning to walk again; title: Mysteries; title: The Sheikha; title: Asra's elopement and Mother's pain; title: Boots marching to Ogaden; title: Arousal transactions; title: The Da Vinci hotel; title: The overpriced vagina; title: An imprisoned wife, 1979-1984. The limping one; title: The twisted tongue; title: The smoke screen; title: The quelling pene; title: Incapacitated state; title: The kohl eyes one; title: Moving away from bedlam; title: Time to burst forth; title: Grenoble; title: The feared mutant; title: Distorted body; title: The black swan; title: Mending the wounds; title: Moving away from perdition; title: The Diderot Restaurant; title: The coffee shop; title: The courtesan; title: Squeezing the vaginal walls; title: Flowers and footsteps; title: White sugar; title: The four breasts; title: Going with the flow; title: The dark hole; title: Father's illness; title: The crushing weight; title: A nation of bards, 1984-2011. The Angelinos; title: The ecclesiastical path; title: Bold moves; title: The relinquishment; title: The path to fire eyes; title: Bloodshed; title: Tailing the dream; title: Rockefeller; title: Achieving the impossible; title: Beating you to the punch; title: Tremor and the indie pilgrimage; title: Breakaway; title: Going for the gold; title: Father's shrouding; title: Bhadrakali; title: Lifework; title: The sutured lips.