2. From "Complete" to "Impaired" Body: Female Circumcision in Somalia and London

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. List of Illustrations VII
4. Acknowledgment IX
5. Introduction: Disability Connections 1
6. PART I Locating Embodied Identities
7. 1. The Two-Week Village: The Significance of Sacred Occasions for the Deaf Community 31
8. 2. From "Complete" to "Impaired" Body: Female Circumcision in Somalia and London 56
9. 3. Reproductively Disabled Lives: Infertility, Stigma, and Suffering in Egypt and India 78
10. 4. The Chosen Body and the Rejection of Disability in Israeli Society 107
11. 5. Disability and Domestic Citizenship: Voice, Gender, and the Making of the Subject 128
12. 6. Domba's Spirit Kidney: Transplant Medicine and Suyâ Indian Cosmology 149
13. PART II Localizing Policy and Technology
14. 7. Genomics, Laissez-Faire Eugenics, and Disability 187
15. 8. Why Am I Not Disabled? Making State Subjects, Making Statistics in Post-Mao China 212
16. 9. Seeing Disability and Human Rights in the Local Context: Botswana Revisited 237
17. 10. Moral Discourse and Old-Age Disability in Japan 259
18. 11 . Wheels and New Legs: Mobilization in Uganda 287
19. Contributors 311
20. Index 315