Female Circumcision
Subtitle: Multicultural Perspectives (Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights)
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: January 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780812219418
Subjects: Human rights; Social Science; Gender Studies; Sociology; Anthropology - Cultural; Political Freedom & Security - Human Rights; Women's Studies - General; Social Science / Anthropology / General; Anthropology - General; Feminism & Feminist Theory
First sentence: Bolokoli, khifad, tahara, tahoor, qodiin, 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.