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The politics of female circumcision in Egypt : gender, sexuality and the construction of identity / Maria Frederika Malmström.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Malmström, Maria Frederika, 1969- author.
- Series:
- Library of modern Middle East studies ; 170.
- Library of modern Middle East studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Egypt--Social conditions.
- Women.
- Female genital mutilation.
- Egypt.
- Social conditions.
- Female genital mutilation--Egypt.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 244 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2016.
- Contents:
- 1 The Politics of 'Female Genital Mutilation' in Egypt 27
- 2 Women's Voices 61
- 3 Moral Sexuality: Creating Female Subjects as Wives and Mothers 102
- 4 Bearing the Pain: The Moral Lesson of Womanhood 138
- 5 The Continuous Making of Pure Womanhood: Cooking, Depilating and Circumcising 167
- 6 Concluding Discussion: The Embeddedness of Female Circumcision 190.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-239) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781784531577
- 178453157X
- OCLC:
- 948794517
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