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Article: The Female Circumcision Controversy, an Anthropological Perspective
- Article from:
- The Middle East Journal
- Article date:
- October 1, 2001
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CopyrightCopyright Middle East Institute Autumn 2001. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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WOMEN
The Female Circumcision Controversy, an Anthropological Perspective, by Ellen Gruenbaum. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001. 242 pages. Appendix to p. 224. Gloss. to 226. Bibl. to 235. Index to 240. $55 cloth; $24.95 paper.
Reviewed by Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban
The subject of female circumcision-also female genital mutilation (FGM), or female genital cutting-has been problematical for Western feminists and scholars for a number of complicated cultural and political reasons. Western colonial powers mounted a legal campaign against it, and decades later Western feminists mounted a cultural opposition against it. Both were resisted by indigenous people whose ...