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Prisoners of Ritual

An Odyssey Into Female Genital Circumcision in Africa
Buch | Softcover
318 Seiten
1989
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-918393-68-5 (ISBN)
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This unique volume focuses on the psychosexual and social effects of female genital mutilation, an ancient, deeply entrenched custom saturating the larger part of Africa. Over a period of six years, Author Hanny Lightfoot-Klein trekked through outlying areas of Sudan, Kenya, and Egypt, where she lived with a number of African families. What she learned by way of in-depth personal interviews and firsthand observation has enabled her to add a previously unknown and often astonishing dimension to our knowledge of ritual practices and human sexuality. This valuable book will be extremely helpful to professionals and scholars in women's studies, social psychology, psychotherapy, psychiatry, gynecology, sexology, as well as cross-cultural and African studies. It should also interest anyone who is concerned with male circumcision in the United States.

Contents
Preface

Part I.
Introduction
1. The Interviews: Procedure and Rationale
2. Female Circumcision in African Countries in General, and Sudan in Particular
3. Sudan: The Current Situation
4. Episodes and Conversations 5. Voices of Reason
6. A History of Clitoral Excision and Infibulation Practices in the Western World
7. Male Circumcision
8. Overview
Part II
9. Images
10. A Sudanese Odyssey
Appendix I
Interviews With Women
Appendix II
Interviews With Men
Bibliography
Index

Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Sexualität / Partnerschaft
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Sozialpsychologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Gender Studies
ISBN-10 0-918393-68-X / 091839368X
ISBN-13 978-0-918393-68-5 / 9780918393685
Zustand Neuware
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