玫瑰解密——文化史和符号学

玫瑰解密——文化史和符号学
Author: (美)弗兰基·哈顿
Publisher: BEIJING BOOK CO. INC.
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2021-11-13
Genre: History
ISBN:

本书展现给读者的是玫瑰鲜为人知的奥秘。源自不同文化和宗教背景的作者从玫瑰的文化史和符号学的角度解读了为我们所司空见惯的玫瑰在宇宙哲学、文学、女性学、宗教学、星象学以及草药医学中丰富的象征意义和广泛的文化、社会和历史意义,探讨了玫瑰这一象征物在基督教、印度教、伊斯兰教中深刻的宗教内涵。

Empathy and Rage

Empathy and Rage
Author: Tobe Levin
Publisher: Ayebia Clarke Publishing
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2009
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

The intense emotional responses of empathy and rage bracket a spectrum of feelings people confront when they consider the millions of women and girls who have undergone bolokoli, takhoundi, tukore ir gudni'in - names in local languages for a procedure that mutilates female genitalia. Contributors not content with silent acquiescence have shown the courage to oppose a harmful practice that continues to plague women of African descent sentenced to a life of suffering through a damaging tradition.

Confronting Female Genital Mutilation

Confronting Female Genital Mutilation
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.

The Day Kadi Lost Part of Her Life

The Day Kadi Lost Part of Her Life
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.

Cutting the Rose

Cutting the Rose
Author: Efua Dorkenoo
Publisher: Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center
Total Pages: 212
Release: 1995
Genre: Medical
ISBN:

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Female Genital Mutilation: Proposals for Change

Female Genital Mutilation: Proposals for Change
Author:
Publisher: Minority Rights Group
Total Pages: 44
Release:
Genre: Social Science
ISBN:

Medically unnecessary and extremely painful operations are routinely carried out on babies and young girls. In their most severe forms they involve the partial or complete removal of the external female genitalia. This little known custom affects more than 80 million women and girls in over 20 countries in Africa. Please note that the terminology in the fields of minority rights and indigenous peoples’ rights has changed over time. MRG strives to reflect these changes as well as respect the right to self-identification on the part of minorities and indigenous peoples. At the same time, after over 50 years’ work, we know that our archive is of considerable interest to activists and researchers. Therefore, we make available as much of our back catalogue as possible, while being aware that the language used may not reflect current thinking on these issues.

Between Rites and Rights

Between Rites and Rights
Author:
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.

Female Genital Mutilations

Female Genital Mutilations
Author: Dr. Getu Tadesse Mindaye
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 134
Release: 2020-08-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1664112049

Female Genital Mutilation ( FGM) is a procedure that involves partial or total removal of Female External Genitalia. It is considered a violation of women’s sexual rights and currently is happening mostly in East, West and North Africa, as well as the Middle East. "The story of Kedra, who is a victim of the most dangerous kind of FGM which is called "infibulation", will tell us what is happening to a million little girls in those countries. This book will show in great detail the short and long term effects of FGM and life as it is down the road for the millions in countries where this procedure is being performed.