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Article: The female circumcision controversy: an anthropological perspective. (General).
- Article from:
- Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
- Article date:
- March 1, 2002
- Author:
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GRUENBAUM, ELLEN. The female circumcision controversy: an anthropological perspective. 242 pp., map, illus., bibliogr. Philadelphia: Univ. Pennsylvania Press, 2000. [pounds sterling]38.50 (cloth), [pounds sterling]17.50 (paper)
Save for revivals of head-hunting, perhaps, few cultural practices arouse such fury in international circles as 'female circumcision' or 'female genital mutilation' (FGM). How could mothers sanction the cutting of their daughters' genitals in the name of making them women? How could women who have undergone the pain of being riven for delivery demand to be sewn up again after giving birth? Much ink has been spilt by Western critics in ...