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Transcultural bodies : female genital cutting in global context
Hernlund, Ylva, 1962-
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Rutgers University Press, |
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c2007. |
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x, 373 p. ; |
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0813540259 |
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1 copy available in
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GN484 .T734 2007
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Main Library - Circulating Collection - 1st Fl.
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ISBN:
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0813540259
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ISBN:
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9780813540252
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ISBN:
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0813540267 (pbk.)
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ISBN:
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9780813540269 (pbk.)
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LC call number:
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GN484 .T734 2007
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Title:
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Transcultural bodies : female genital cutting in global context / edited by Ylva Hernlund, Bettina Shell-Duncan.
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Publication info:
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New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2007.
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Physical description:
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x, 373 p. ; 24 cm.
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Bibliography note:
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-360) and index.
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Contents:
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Transcultural positions : negotiating rights and culture / Ylva Hernlund and Bettina Shell-Duncan -- ender crusades : the female circumcision controversy in cultural perspective / Janice Boddy -- Refuge from tradition and the refuge of tradition : on anticircumcision paradigms / L. Amede Obiora -- Female circumcision in Africa and beyond : the anthropology of a difficult issue / Aud Talle -- Persistence of tradition or reassessment of cultural practices in exile? : discourses on female circumcision among and about Swedish Somalis / Sara Johnsdotter -- Managing cultural diversity in Australia : legislating female circumcision, legislating communities / Juliet Rogers -- Representing Africa in the Kasinga asylum case / Charles Piot -- Seeking asylum, debating values, and setting precedents in the 1990s : the cases of Kassindja and Abankwah in the United States / Corinne A. Kratz -- Making mandinga or making Muslims? : debating female circumcision, ethnicity, and Islam in Guinea-Bissau and Portugal / Michelle C. Johnson -- Infibulation and the orgasm puzzle : sexual experiences of infibulated Eritrean women in rural Eritrea and Melbourne, Australia / Mansura Dopico -- Experiencing sex in exile : can genitals change their gender? : on conceptions and experiences related to female genital cutting (FGC) among Somalis in Norway / R. Elise B. Johansen -- "Ain't I a woman too?" : challenging myths of sexual dysfunction in circumcised women / Fuambai Ahmadu -- Failure of pluralism? / Henrietta L. Moore.
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Subject:
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Female circumcision.
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Subject:
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Infibulation.
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Personal author:
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Hernlund, Ylva, 1962-
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Personal author:
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Shell-Duncan, Bettina, 1963-
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Electronic access:
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Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0618/2006025455.html
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