4. Female Circumcision in Africa and Beyond: The Anthropology of a Difficult Issue

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Tables vii
4. Preface ix
5. 1. Transcultural Positions: Negotiating Rights and Culture 1
6. 2. Gender Crusades: The Female Circumcision Controversy in Cultural Perspective 46
7. 3. A Refuge from Tradition and the Refuge of Tradition: On Anticircumcision Paradigms 67
8. 4. Female Circumcision in Africa and Beyond: The Anthropology of a Difficult Issue 91
9. 5. Persistence of Tradition or Reassessment of Cultural Practices in Exile? Discourses on Female Circumcision among and about Swedish Somalis 107
10. 6. Managing Cultural Diversity in Australia: Legislating Female Circumcision, Legislating Communities 135
11. 7. Representing Africa in the Kasinga Asylum Case 157
12. 8. Seeking Asylum, Debating Values, and Setting Precedents in the 1990s: The Cases of Kassindja and Abankwah in the United States 167
13. 9. Making Mandinga or Making Muslims? Debating Female Circumcision, Ethnicity, and Islam in Guinea-Bissau and Portugal 202
14. 10. Infibulation and the Orgasm Puzzle: Sexual Experiences of Infibulated Eritrean Women in Rural Eritrea and Melbourne, Australia 224
15. 11. Experiencing Sex in Exile: Can Genitals Change Their Gender? On Conceptions and Experiences Related to Female Genital Cutting (FGC) among Somalis in Norway 248
16. 12. “Ain’t I a Woman Too?”: Challenging Myths of Sexual Dysfunction in Circumcised Women 278
17. 13. The Failure of Pluralism? 311
18. Bibliography 331
19. Index 365