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Transcultural Bodies

Female Genital Cutting in Global Context
Buch | Softcover
432 Seiten
2007
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8135-4026-9 (ISBN)
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Bringing together thirteen essays, this work provides an exploration of female genital cutting (FGC) among African diasporas in the United Kingdom, Europe, and Australia. It analyzes the changes in ideologies of gender and sexuality in immigrant communities, and the frequent marginalization of African women's voices in debates over FGC.
Female "circumcision" or, more precisely, female genital cutting (FGC), remains an important cultural practice in many African countries, often serving as a coming-of-age ritual. It is also a practice that has generated international dispute and continues to be at the center of debates over women's rights, the limits of cultural pluralism, the balance of power between local cultures, international human rights, and feminist activism. In our increasingly globalized world, these practices have also begun immigrating to other nations, where transnational complexities vex debates about how to resolve the issue.

Bringing together thirteen essays, Transcultural Bodies provides an ethnographically rich exploration of FGC among African diasporas in the United Kingdom, Europe, and Australia. Contributors analyze changes in ideologies of gender and sexuality in immigrant communities, the frequent marginalization of African women's voices in debates over FGC, and controversies over legislation restricting the practice in immigrant populations.

Ylva K. Hernlund is a research associate at the Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology and an instructor in the department of anthropology at the University of Washington. Bettina K. Shell-Duncan is an associate professor of anthropology and an adjunct professor of health services at the University of Washington.

List of Tables
Preface

1. Transcultural Positions: Negotiating Rights and Culture by Ylva Hernlund and Bettina Shell-Duncan
2. Gender Crusades: The Female Circumcision Controversy in Cultural Perspective by Janice Boddy
3. A Refuge from Tradition and the Refuge of Tradition: On Anticircumcision Paradigms by L. Amede Obiora
4. Female Circumcision in Africa and Beyond: The Anthropology of a Difficult Issue by Aud Talle
5. Persistence of Tradition or Reassessment of Cultural Practices in Exile? Discourses on Female Circumcision among and about Swedish Somalis by Sara Johnsdotter
6. Managing Cultural Diversity in Australia: Legislating Female Circumcision, Legislating Communities by Juliet Rogers
7. Representing Africa in the Kasinga Asylum Case by Charles Piot
8. Seeking Asylum, Debating Values, and Setting Precedents in the 1990s: The Cases of Kassindja and Abankwah in the United States by Corinne A. Kratz
9. Making Mandinga or Making Muslims? Debating Female Circumcision, Ethnicity, and Islam in Guinea-Bissau and Portugal by Michelle C. Johnson
10. Infibulation and the Orgasm Puzzle: Sexual Experiences of Infibulated Eritrean Women in Rural Eritrea and Melbourne, Australia by Mansura Dopico
11. Experiencing Sex in Exile: Can Genitals Change Their Gender? On Conceptions and Experiences Related to Female Genital Cutting (FGC) among Somalis in Norway by R. Elise B. Johansen
12. "Ain't I a Woman Too?": Challenging Myths of Sexual Dysfunction in Circumcised Women by Fuambai Ahmadu
13. The Failure of Pluralism? by Henrietta L. Moore

Bibliography
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag 30.7.2007
Verlagsort New Brunswick NJ
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 567 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Gender Studies
ISBN-10 0-8135-4026-7 / 0813540267
ISBN-13 978-0-8135-4026-9 / 9780813540269
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