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Author : Center for Reproductive Law & Policy
Publisher : Zed Books
ISBN 13 : 9781856497732
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (977 download)
Download or read book Female Genital Mutilation written by Center for Reproductive Law & Policy and published by Zed Books. This book was released on 2000-06 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1. Background and history
Author : Sada Mire
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429769245
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)
Download or read book Divine Fertility written by Sada Mire and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-02-05 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uniquely explores the impact of indigenous ideology and thought on everyday life in Northeast Africa. Furthermore, in highlighting the diversity in pre-Christian, pre-Islamic regional beliefs and practices that extend beyond the simplistic political arguments of the current dominant narratives, the study shows that for millennia complex indigenous institutions have bound people together beyond the labels of Christianity and Islam; they have sustained peace through cultural exchange and tolerance (if not always complete acceptance). Through recent archaeological and ethnographic research, the concepts, landscapes, materials and rituals believed to be associated with the indigenous and shared culture of the Sky-God belief are examined. The author makes sense, for the first time, of the relationship between the notion of sacred fertility and a number of regional archaeological features and on-going ancient practices including FGM, spirit possessions, and other physically invasive practices and the ritual hunt. The book explores one of the most important pilgrimage centres in Somaliland and Somalia, the sacred landscape of Saint Aw-Barkhadle, founded ca. 12th century AD. It is believed to be the burial place of the rulers of the first Muslim Ifat and Awdal dynasties in this region, and potentially the lost first capital of Awdal kingdom before Harar. This ritual centre is seen as a ‘microcosm’ of the ancient Horn of Africa with its exceptional multi-religious heritage, through which the author lays out a locally appropriate archaeological interpretational framework, the "Ritual Set," also applied here to the Ethiopian sites of Tiya, Sheikh Hussein Bale, Aksum and Lalibela, setting these places against a wider historical background of indigenous Sky-God belief. This archaeological study of sacred landscapes, stelae traditions, ancient Christian and medieval Muslim centres of Northeast Africa is the first to put forward a theoretical and analytical framework for the interpretation of the shared regional heritage and the indigenous archaeology of the region. It will be invaluable to archaeologists, anthropologists, historians and policymakers interested in Africa and beyond.
Author : Hilary Burrage
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1472419979
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (724 download)
Download or read book Eradicating Female Genital Mutilation written by Hilary Burrage and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2015-11-28 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ground-breaking handbook details the present situation with regard to female genital mutilation (FGM) in Britain, referring also to other western nations where FGM occurs. It scrutinizes current pathways to eradicating this often dangerous, sometimes lethal, form of child abuse and gender-related violence. This book makes the case urgently for developing a shared, coherent model - a multi-disciplinary paradigm - as the basis to achieve the eradication of FGM. The text will be required reading for health, legal, educational and social services professionals, as well as researchers, policy makers, school governors, journalists and other concerned citizens.
Author : Fran P. Hosken
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780942096101
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (961 download)
Download or read book Stop Female Genital Mutilation written by Fran P. Hosken and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is based on the comprehensive research in Africa published in THE HOSKEN REPORT, GENITAL & SEXUAL MUTILATION OF FEMALES, which is summarized in the chapter "HEALTH FACTS & OVERVIEW" (annotated). In the key chapter "WOMEN SPEAK ABOUT THEIR LIVES" the terrible personal experiences of mutilated women are related by them to enable others to escape their fate. These stories were collected by the author over many years all over Africa, visiting maternity hospitals, midwives & women's groups to establish the facts. The truth about these damaging traditions has been concealed by all international organizations - see chapter on "THE POLITICS OF FGM." A chapter on "HUMAN RIGHTS" unequivocally establishes that FGM is an international human rights violation. "ACTIONS FOR CHANGE" documents the initiatives by African women to eradicate these violent assaults on the integrity of female children - especially the work of the Inter African Committee on Traditional Practices affecting the Health of Women & Children all over Africa. The author describes the experience with THE CHILDBIRTH PICTURE BOOKS: they explain healthy reproduction regardless of language or literacy & are successfully used in stopping FGM." Available from Women's International Network News, 187 Grant St., Lexington, MA 02173. Phone: (617) 862-9431, FAX: (617) 862-1734.
Author : Tamsin Bradley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786994178
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (869 download)
Download or read book Global Perspectives on Violence against Women and Girls written by Tamsin Bradley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-15 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the movement to end all forms of violence against women and girls (VAWG) gains momentum around the world, this provocative new work applies an innovative theoretical lens to gendered violence across a wide variety of countries and contexts. Global Perspectives on Violence against Women and Girls engages with VAWG in the UK and across the global South, including case studies from India, Pakistan and South Sudan. Considering various forms of violence including harmful cultural practices such as FGM to Early Child Marriage, dowry and bride price related harassment, stranger rape, work-based harassment, Intimate Partner Violence and other forms of domestic violence, this important volume creates an original critical lens by combining the ecology model, the intersectional approach and a spectrum designed to identify the range of different forms of VAWG in a given context. Arguing for a greater understanding of the local political and cultural contexts in which VAWG is allowed to flourish, Global Perspectives on Violence against Women and Girls is one of the few works to give due prominence to local women's organizations in the global South and beyond, who it argues must ultimately play the leading role in ending VAWG. At a time when the fight against violent misogyny finds itself at a critical turning point, this volume makes a substantial and timely contribution towards the ultimate goal of ending VAWG.
Author : Hilary Burrage
Publisher : New Holland Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781742576077
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (76 download)
Download or read book Female Mutilation written by Hilary Burrage and published by New Holland Publishers. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book comprises a collection of narratives by people whose lives have been touched by female genital mutilation (FMG), across five continents.
Author : Nahid Toubia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Female Genital Mutilation written by Nahid Toubia and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2. Prevalence and epidemiology
Author : Council of Europe
Publisher : Council of Europe
ISBN 13 : 9789287172037
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (72 download)
Download or read book Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence written by Council of Europe and published by Council of Europe. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence (CETS No. 210) is the first legally binding instrument to address violence against women and domestic violence in Europe. It contains a wide range of obligations aiming to prevent violence, protect its victims, prosecute the perpetrators, implement coordinated policies and promote international co-operation. It also envisages a monitoring mechanism. The convention recognizes violence against women as a violation of human rights and is a major step forward in achieving gender equality in law and in fact.
Author : World Health Organization
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Female Genital Mutilation written by World Health Organization and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This document contains the joint statement of the World Health Organization (WHO), UN Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF), and the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) on female genital mutilation. The introduction to the statement notes that the purpose of the statement is not to criticize or condemn but to allow people to understand the hazards and indignity of harmful practices and to realize that it is possible to give up harmful practices without giving up meaningful aspects of their culture.
Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789241596442
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (964 download)
Download or read book Eliminating Female Genital Mutilation written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bettina Shell-Duncan
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781555879952
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (799 download)
Download or read book Female "circumcision" in Africa written by Bettina Shell-Duncan and published by Lynne Rienner Publishers. This book was released on 2000 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To ban excision in Meru, Kenya, Lynn Thomas
Author : Alice Walker
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453224009
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)
Download or read book Possessing the Secret of Joy written by Alice Walker and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2011-09-20 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An American woman struggles with the genital mutilation she endured as a child in Africa in a New York Times bestseller “as compelling as The Color Purple” (San Francisco Chronicle). In Tashi’s tribe, the Olinka, young girls undergo female genital mutilation as an initiation into the community. Tashi manages to avoid this fate at first, but when pressed by tribal leaders, she submits. Years later, married and living in America as Evelyn Johnson, Tashi’s inner pain emerges. As she questions why such a terrifying, disfiguring sacrifice was required, she sorts through the many levels of subjugation with which she’s been burdened over the years. In Possessing the Secret of Joy, Alice Walker exposes the abhorrent practice of female genital mutilation in an unforgettable, moving novel. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Alice Walker including rare photos from the author’s personal collection. Possessing the Secret of Joy is the 3rd book in the Color Purple Collection, which also includes The Color Purple and The Temple of My Familiar.
Author : Ellen Gruenbaum
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812292510
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book The Female Circumcision Controversy written by Ellen Gruenbaum and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2015-03-17 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To the Western eye, there is something jarringly incongruous, even shocking, about the image of a six-year-old girl being held down by loving relatives so that her genitals can be cut. Yet two million girls experience this each year. Most Westerners, upon learning of the practice of female circumcision, have responded with outrage; those committed to improving the status of women have gone beyond outrage to action by creating various programs for "eradicating" the practice. But few understand the real life complexities families face in deciding whether to follow the traditional practices or to take the risk of change. In The Female Circumcision Controversy, Ellen Gruenbaum points out that Western outrage and Western efforts to stop genital mutilation often provoke a strong backlash from people in the countries where the practice is common. She looks at the validity of Western arguments against the practice. In doing so, she explores both outsider and insider perspectives on female circumcision, concentrating particularly on the complex attitudes of the individuals and groups who practice it and on indigenous efforts to end it. Gruenbaum finds that the criticisms of outsiders are frequently simplistic and fail to appreciate the diversity of cultural contexts, the complex meanings, and the conflicting responses to change. Drawing on over five years of fieldwork in Sudan, where the most severe forms of genital surgery are common, Gruenbaum shows that the practices of female circumcision are deeply embedded in Sudanese cultural traditions—in religious, moral, and aesthetic values, and in ideas about class, ethnicity, and gender. Her research illuminates both the resistance to and the acceptance of change. She shows that change is occurring as the result of economic and social developments, the influences of Islamic activists, the work of Sudanese health educators, and the efforts of educated African women. That does not mean that there is no role for outsiders, Gruenbaum asserts, and she offers suggestions for those who wish to help facilitate change. By presenting specific cultural contexts and human experiences with a deep knowledge of the tremendous variation of the practice and meaning of female circumcision, Gruenbaum provides an insightful analysis of the process of changing this complex, highly debated practice.
Author : Nadya Khalife
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book "They Took Me and Told Me Nothing" written by Nadya Khalife and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recommendations -- Background -- Female genital mutilation around the world -- Female genital mutilation in Iraqi Kurdistan -- Female genital mutilation : a human rights issue -- Official action on FGM.
Author : Emma Craigie
Publisher : Short Books
ISBN 13 : 1780721803
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (87 download)
Download or read book What Was Never Said written by Emma Craigie and published by Short Books. This book was released on 2015-05-07 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 15-year-old Zahra has lived in England most of her life, but she is haunted by memories of her early childhood in Africa: the warm sun, the loud gunfire, and happy days playing with her older sister before "the visitors" came. It is hard for Zahra to make sense of everything that happened, and the terrible events are impossible to talk about, but when three familiar women arrive unexpectedly for tea, Zahra realises that the dangers of the past could still destroy her. What Was Never Said is the powerful story of a girl navigating the demands of two very different and conflicting worlds; a tale of surviving loss and overcoming fears.
Author : Fran P. Hosken
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Hosken Report written by Fran P. Hosken and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Efua Dorkenoo
Publisher : Minority Rights Group
ISBN 13 : 1873194609
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (731 download)
Download or read book Cutting the Rose: Female Genital Mutilation - The Practice and Its Prevention written by Efua Dorkenoo and published by Minority Rights Group. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only from such models is it fully possible to explore such issues as the rights of women and of children, of the part which the well-being of women plays in the health of a nation, and also the strengths and weaknesses of the various international campaigns on the subject.
