Format:
1 online resource (386 pages)
ISBN:
9780813541389
Content:
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.
Content:
Intro -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Transcultural Positions: Negotiating Rights and Culture -- Chapter 2: Gender Crusades: The Female Circumcision Controversy in Cultural Perspective -- Chapter 3: A Refuge from Tradition and the Refuge of Tradition: On Anticircumcision Paradigms -- Chapter 4: Female Circumcision in Africa and Beyond: The Anthropology of a Difficult Issue -- Chapter 5: Persistence of Tradition or Reassessment of Cultural Practices in Exile? Discourses on Female Circumcision among and about Swedish Somalis -- Chapter 6: Managing Cultural Diversity in Australia: Legislating Female Circumcision, Legislating Communities -- Chapter 7: Representing Africa in the Kasinga Asylum Case -- Chapter 8: Seeking Asylum, Debating Values, and Setting Precedents in the 1990s: The Cases of Kassindja and Abankwah in the United States -- Chapter 9: Making Mandinga or Making Muslims? Debating Female Circumcision, Ethnicity, and Islam in Guinea-Bissau and Portugal -- Chapter 10: Infibulation and the Orgasm Puzzle: Sexual Experiences of Infibulated Eritrean Women in Rural Eritrea and Melbourne, Australia -- Chapter 11: Experiencing Sex in Exile: Can Genitals Change Their Gender? On Conceptions and Experiences Related to Female Genital Cutting (FGC) among Somalis in Norway -- Chapter 12: "Ain't I a Woman Too?": Challenging Myths of Sexual -- Chapter 13: The Failure of Pluralism? -- Bibliography -- About the Contributors -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780813540252
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780813540252
Additional Edition:
Print version Transcultural Bodies : Female Genital Cutting in Global Context
Language:
English
Keywords:
Beschneidung
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Infibulation
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Aufsatzsammlung
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https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/transcultural-bodies/9780813540269
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