Buch
Sammelband
Transcultural bodies : female genital cutting in global context
Verfasst von:
Hernlund, Ylva
New Brunswick, NJ [u. a.]:
Rutgers Univ. Press
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2007
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373 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Frauensolidarität | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Hernlund, Ylva |
| Jahr: | 2007 |
| Maße: | 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 0813540267 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| Female genital mutilation (FGM), 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 FGM 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 FGM, and controversies over legislation restricting the practice in immigrant populations. Contributors: Ylava Hernlund and Bettina Shell-Duncan (Transcultural Positions: Negotiating Rights and Cultures), Janice Boddy (The Female Circumcision Controversy in Cultural Perspective), L. Amede Obiora (On Anticircumcision Paradigms), Aud Talle (Female Circumcision in Africa and Beyond), Satra Johnsdotter (Discourses on Female Circumcision among and about Swedish Somalis), Juliet Rogers (Managing Cultural Diversity in Australia: Legislating Female Circumcision), Charles Piot (Representing Africa in the Kasinga Asylum Case), Corinne A. Kratz (Seeking Asylum: The Cases of Kassindja and Abankwah in the United States), Millele C. Johnson (Debating Female Circumcision, Ethnicity, and Islam in Guinea-Bissau and Portugal), Masura Dpoico (Sexual Experiences of Infibulated Eritrean Women in Rural Eritrea and Melbourne, Australia), R. Elisa B. Johansen (On Conceptions and Experiences Related to Female Genital Cutting among Somalis in Norway), Fuambai Ahmadu (Challenging Myths of Sexual Dysfunction in Circumcised Women), Henrietta Moore (The Failure of Pluralism?). | |
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| Literaturverz. S. 331 - 360 | |
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