Genital Cutting and Transnational Sisterhood

Disputing U.S. Polemics

Author: Stanlie Myrise James
Secondary Author: Claire C. Robertson
ISBN: 9780252027413

Genital Cutting and Transnational Sisterhood is a much-needed response to the ethnocentric and arrogant Western perceptions surrounding female genital cutting (FGC), often referred to as either female genital mutilation or female circumcision, but including a variety of practices of varying history, severity, geographical distribution and consequences.In five provocative essays, the contributors to this timely volume challenge representations of FGC through a range of perspectives: history, human rights, law, missionary feminism, cultural relativism, anthropology, and the intersex movement. Balancing feminist ideals with culturally conscious approaches, they dispel sensationalized and widely accepted concepts that influence Western media, law, and feminist thought on FGC, including the ignorance and oversimplification of African history, cultures and religions, and an exaggeration of the extent and geographical distribution of the various procedures performed. The assumption that FGC d

Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Publish Date: 2002

Subjects: Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural, Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory, Social Science / Women's Studies

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Global Feminism)