Confronting Female Genital Mutilation
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Author | : Marie-Hélène Mottin-Sylla |
Publisher | : IDRC |
Total Pages | : 138 |
Release | : 2011-07-14 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 0857490311 |
Excision, or female genital mutilation (FGM), in Africa is no longer the private concern only of women; it is a social and political issue that concerns both men and women and this book reports on an innovative research and action project amongst girls and boys in Burkina Faso, Mali, and Senegal. The project explores whether young people's use of information technology could contribute to the abandonment of FGM. In the age of the internet, beliefs and practices of FGM are shifting, particularly among young people. The results of this project show how, in the era of globalized citizenship, a cross-sectional vision that puts young people and gender at the center of development can produce real change.
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Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2007-08-24 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780804768375 |
The study shows, in chronological fashion, how African women writers in the past five decades have introduced a new, autobiographical discourse around their experience of excision, bringing nuance and vitality to the FGM debate.
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Total Pages | : 31 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Artists |
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Author | : Terry Teague Meyer |
Publisher | : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
Total Pages | : 106 |
Release | : 2015-07-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1499460503 |
This urgently important, unflinching, yet sensitive examination raises awareness about female genital cutting and provides essential information to help end its practice. According to a 2014 World Health Organization (WHO) fact sheet, more than 125 million girls and women alive today have been subjected to some form of genital cutting in twenty-nine countries in Africa and the Middle East. Census figures (2000) show that 228,000 women and girls in the United States have suffered from such procedures or are at future risk. This indispensible volume is packed with resources to support women's physical, psychological, and emotional health and healing.
Author | : Khama Rogo |
Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
Total Pages | : 46 |
Release | : 2007-08-22 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 0821371843 |
'Female Genital Cutting, Women's Health, and Development' provides a comprehensive understanding of the issue of femal genital mutiliation/cutting scope, challenges, opportunities, best practices, and how communities, development agencies, and national governments can work together to eliminate the practices on the ground. The World Bank is committed to assisting governments in ending the practice of female genital cutting, as the practice has direct, negative impact on the health and well-being of women around the world. The recommendations set forth in this paper take advantage of the World Bank's comparative advantage in dealing with governments. Continued silence perpetuates the practice, thereby undermining women's productivity.
Author | : Efua Dorkenoo |
Publisher | : Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Medical |
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Author | : Stanlie Myrise James |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780252027413 |
Extrait de la couverture : "[This book] is a much-needed response to the ethnocentric and arrogant Western perceptions surrounding female genital cutting (FGC), often referred to as either female genital mutilation or female circumcision but including a variety of practices of varying history, severity, geographical distribution, and consequences. In five provocative essays, the contributors to this timely volume challenge representations of FCG. In doing so, they interweave a range of perspectives, including history, human rights, law ... Balancing feminist ideals with culturally conscious approaches, they dispel sensationalized and widely accepted concepts about FCG that influence Western media, law, and feminism thought."
Author | : Author, Mary Nyangweso Wangila |
Publisher | : Orbis Books |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2015-03-04 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1608334244 |
A Kenyan woman theologian examines arguments for and against the controversial practice of female circumcision. Based on interviews with 50 Kenyan women representing Christianity, Islam, African Initiated Churches, and traditional religion, Wangila emphasizes the importance of understanding the gender relationships and cultural beliefs behind the practice and the important role played by religion. Wangila calls for eradication of the practice to carefully designed educational efforts sensitive to religious and cultural beliefs.
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Total Pages | : 31 |
Release | : 2006 |
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Author | : Kim Manresa |
Publisher | : Spinifex Press |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 9781875559749 |
This is the moving photostory of a 4 year old African girl named Kadi, who is subjected to female genital mutilation (FGM) in accordance with the traditions of her community. Black and white photographs document the activities of the day in which she undergoes this operation and an explanatory text details exactly what FGM entails. This is a unique book, being the first photo documentation of the practice. The story is personal and emotive, and the photographs, although confronting, depict the events with delicacy and are of very high quality. Significantly, the book focuses on the immediate experience of a child undergoing FGM, separating it from other recent accounts which have been written from the perspective of adult females looking back on their childhood.