Female genital mutilation : a guide to laws and policies worldwide / edited by Anika Rahman and Nahid Toubia.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rahman, Anika.

Toubia, Nahid.

Center for Reproductive Law & Policy.

RAINBO (Organization)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Female genital mutilation--Law and legislation--Criminal provisions.

Female genital mutilation.

Women's rights.

Female genital mutilation--Law and legislation.

Physical Description:

xviii, 249 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Zed Books in association with Center for Reproductive Law and Policy and Research, Action and Information Network for the Bodily Integrity of Women ; New York : Distributed in the USA exclusively by St. Martin's Press, [2000]

Summary:

The book opens with a description of female circumcision/female genital mutilation, its history and its consequences for health. The authors look at the reasons used to justify it -- control of women's sexuality, tradition, interpretation of religious dictates -- and present a history of the movement working to combat it.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [242]-244) and index.

ISBN:

1856497720

1856497739

OCLC:

44548936