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Hegemonic Human Rights and African Resistance: Female Circumcision in a Broader Comparative Perspective
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Elisabetta Grande
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January 13, 2005
The issue of Female Circumcision is usually discussed in the framework of extreme human rights violations victimizing non western women. This paper questions this approach by broadly comparing Female Circumcision with similar "cutting" practices routinely performed in Western societies. An integrative approach to comparative law is suggested in order to understand phenomena in context and to avoid ethnocentrism.
Keywords: Human Rights; Hegemony; Female Circumcision; Breast Augmentation; Male Circumcision; Comparative Law
Published Online: 2005-1-13
©2011 Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin/Boston
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Keywords for this article
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Comparative Law
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