Format:
1 Online-Ressource (vi, 287 pages)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0812239245
,
0812219414
,
0812201027
,
9780812239249
,
9780812219418
,
9780812201024
Series Statement:
Pennsylvania studies in human rights
Content:
Introduction : The custom in question / Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf -- "Had this been your face, would you leave it as it is?" Female circumcision among Nubians of Egypt / Fadwa El Guindi -- Male and female circumcision : the myth of the difference / Sami A. Aldeeb Abu-Sahlieh -- Community-based efforts to end female genital mutilation in Kenya : raising awareness and organizing alternative rites of passage / Asha Mohamud, Samson Radeny, and Karin Ringheim -- A community of women empowered : the story of Deir El Basha / Amal Abdel Hadi -- Strategies for encouraging the abandonment of female genital cutting : experiences from Senegal, Burkina Faso, and Mali / Nafissatou J. Diop and Ian Askew -- The Sudanese National Committee on the Eradication of Harmful Traditional Practices and the campaign against female genital mutilation / Hamid El Bashir -- The Babiker Badri Scientific Association for Women's Studies and the eradication of female circumcision in the Sudan / Shahira Ahmed -- "My grandmother called it the three feminine sorrows" : the struggle of women against female circumcision in Somalia / Raqiya D. Abdalla -- The double-edged sword : using the criminal law against female genital mutilation / Audrey Macklin -- Representing Africa in the Kasinga Asylum case / Charles Piot -- Afterword : Safe harbor and homage / L. Amede Obiora
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-272) and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0812239245
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0812219414
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780812219418
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Female circumcision Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2006
Language:
English
URL:
Volltext
(lizenzpflichtig)
Author information:
Abusharaf, Rogaia M. 1967-
