1 option
The girl with three legs : a memoir / Soraya Mire.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mire, Soraya.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Somalia--Biography.
- Women.
- Women--Somalia--Rites and ceremonies.
- Female genital mutilation--Social aspects.
- Female genital mutilation.
- Female genital mutilation--Psychological aspects.
- Female genital mutilation--Prevention.
- Mire, Soraya.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (410 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : Lawrence Hill Books, 2011.
- Summary:
- Having experienced firsthand the horror of female genital mutilation (FGM), Soraya Miré reveals the personal violation and immense challenges she overcame. This book is at once an intimate revelation, a testament to the empowerment of women, and an indictment of the violent global oppression of women and girls. This forthright narrative recounts what it means to grow up female in a traditional Somali family, where girls' and women's basic human rights are violated on a daily basis. Forced in
- Contents:
- A daughter of Africa, 1960-1979. New beginning
- Whispering voices
- Smoke rising from her ears
- White turban man
- The girl with three legs
- Grandmother's shrouding
- The secret house and the ghost house
- The sound of the scissors
- Betrayal
- Learning to walk again
- Mysteries
- The Sheikha
- Asra's elopement and Mother's pain
- Boots marching to Ogaden
- Arousal transactions
- The Da Vinci hotel
- The overpriced vagina
- An imprisoned wife, 1979-1984. The limping one
- The twisted tongue
- The smoke screen
- The quelling pene
- Incapacitated state
- The kohl eyes one
- Moving away from bedlam
- Time to burst forth
- Grenoble
- The feared mutant
- Distorted body
- The black swan
- Mending the wounds
- Moving away from perdition
- The Diderot Restaurant
- The coffee shop
- The courtesan
- Squeezing the vaginal walls
- Flowers and footsteps
- White sugar
- The four breasts
- Going with the flow
- The dark hole
- Father's illness
- The crushing weight
- A nation of bards, 1984-2011. The Angelinos
- The ecclesiastical path
- Bold moves
- The relinquishment
- The path to fire eyes
- Bloodshed
- Tailing the dream
- Rockefeller
- Achieving the impossible
- Beating you to the punch
- Tremor and the indie pilgrimage
- Breakaway
- Going for the gold
- Father's shrouding
- Bhadrakali
- Lifework
- The sutured lips.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-56976-928-1
- OCLC:
- 752309447
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.