The Routledge international handbook of harmful cultural practices / edited by Maria Jaschok, U. H. Ruhina Jesmin, Tobe Levin von Gleichen, and Comfort Momoh.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jaschok, Maria, editor.

Jesmin, U. H. Ruhina, editor.

Gleichen, Tobe Levin von, editor.

Momoh, Comfort, editor.

Series:

Routledge international handbooks.

Routledge international handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Female genital mutilation--Social aspects--Case studies.

Female genital mutilation.

Women--Social conditions--Case studies.

Women.

Women--Social life and customs--Case studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxvi, 538 ppages) : illustrations, maps.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2024.

Summary:

"This handbook looks at cross-cultural work on harmful cultural practices considered gendered forms of abuse of women. These include Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), virginity testing, hymenoplasty, genital cosmetic surgery and child marriage. Bringing together comparative perspectives, intersectionality, and interdisciplinarity, it uses feminist methodology and mixed methods, with ethnography of central importance, to provide holistic, grounded theorizing within a framework of transformative research. Taking Female Genital Mutilation, a topical, contested practice and making it a heuristic reference for related procedures, makes the case for global action based on understanding the complexity of harmful cultural practices that are contextually differentiated and experienced in inter-sectional ways. But because this phenomenon is enshrouded in matters of sensitivity and prejudice, narratives of suffering are muted and even suppressed, dismissed as indigenous ritual, or become ammunition for racist organizing. Such conflicted and often opaque debates obstruct clear vision of the scale of both problem and solution. Divided into 6 parts: -Discourses and Epistemological Faultlines -FGM and Related Patriarchal Inscriptions -Gender and Genitalia -Female Bodies and Body Politics: Economics, Law, Health, and Human Rights -Placing Engagement, Innovation, Impact, Care -Words and Texts to Shatter Silence and comprised of 24 newly written chapters from experts around the world, this book will be of interest to Scholars and students of nursing, social work, and allied health more broadly as well as sociology, gender studies and postcolonial studies"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Constructing excision, writing pain / Evelyne Accad

Reflections on femininity and FGM / Lorraine Koonce Farahmand

FGM/C and the female perpetrator : analysis of an underdeveloped figure / Daniela Hrzán

The archaeology of female genital mutilation in German national politics : "wegroups", othering, and the pertinence of intersecting discourses "FGM and femininity" / Lea Kristin Kleinsorg

Trends in female genital mutilation/cutting : a qualitative investigation focusing on mothers of circumcised Nigerian girls / Oluchukwu Loveth Obiora

The British campaign to ban virginity testing and hymenoplasty / Saarrah Ray

Is it really "easier to dig a hole than build a pole"? Feminist reflections on genital surgery for children born with ambiguous genitalia / Marion Hulverscheidt

Circumcision as inscriptions of gender : implications of eradication or sustenance / Mary Nyangweso

Patriarchal inscription on African women : negotiating zero tolerance for FGM / Adebisi Adebayo

Marginalization of community voices in fighting female circumcision / Phyllis Livaha

What did the judge say? A comparative analysis of selected FGM case law in highincome & low-income countries / Micali Drossos, I., Komba, P., and Granier, L.M.C.

FGM studies : economics, public health, and societal wellbeing / Hilary Burrage

FGM

Health, law, education and sustainable goals through upstream and downstream approaches / Felicity Gerry, Andrew Rowland, Charlotte Proudman, Joseph Home and Hoda Ali

Reclaiming autonomy of body : comparing memoirs by Khady Koïta and Hibo Wardere / U.H. Ruhina Jesmin

Emotional and behavioral consequences of FGM/C among West African women residents in the United States / Mariama Diallo

FGM in one of the world's richest countries : the case of Singapore / John Chua

"The law against female genital mutilation (FGM) can scare people from performing FGM, but it doesn't change their attitudes" : findings of a qualitative study in Leeds, United Kingdom / Olayemi Babajide, Abimbola Babajide and Bassey Ebenso

Morbidity due to female genital mutilation : a scoping review / Ava G. Chappell, Daniel C. Sasson, Abbas Hassan; Yufan Yan, Annie B. Wescott, Melissa Simon, Lori A. Post, and Sumanas W. Jordan

Female genital mutilation in African and African diaspora memoir and fiction / Tobe Levin von Gleichen and Pierrette Herzberger-Fofana

Assessment of oral media utilization on 'female circumcision' among the Abagusii of Kenya / Felister Nyaera Nkangi

Voices to end female genital mutilation/cutting : using digital storytelling to end a harmful social norm / Mariya Taher, Amy Hill, Sandra Yu, and Kamakshi Arora

FGM in Germany in the context of migration / Abadjayé Gwladys Awo

'I'm going to be judged for having FGM' : national health service experiences described by women affected by female genital mutilation in the United Kingdom and Europe / Rewan Youssif* & Charnele Nunes*, Manar Marzouk, Sameera Hassan, Mervat Alhaffar, and Natasha Howard

"This is not my fatherland." Female genital mutilation : stories from the lives of Nigerian exiles in Italy / Annagrazia Faraca.

Notes:

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

1-003-80594-9

1-003-31670-0

9781003316701

OCLC:

1405932956