Literature about female genital mutilation (FGM)

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A

• Abdelmagied, Ahmed; Salah, Wefag; ElTahir, Nayla; NurEldin, Tamadur; & Shareef, Sahar, Perception and Attitudes of Religious Groups Towards Female Genital Mutilation, Ahfad Journal, Vol. 22, No. 2, December 2005.
• Abusharaf, Rogaia Mustafa (2006): Female Circumcision, Multicultural Perspectives. University of Pennsylvania Press.

B

• Bekers, Elisabeth (2010): Rising Anthills: African and African American Writing on Female Genital Excision, 1960-2000. University of Wisconsin Press.
• Burrage, Hilary (2015): Eradicating Female Genital Mutilation: A UK Perspective. Ashgate Publishing Ltd..

C

• Caney, Simon (2005): Justice Beyond Borders: A Global Political Theory. Oxford University Press.
• Chavkin, Wendy, Chesler, Ellen (2005): Where Human Rights Begin: Health, Sexuality and Women in the New Millennium. Rutgers University Press.
• Corea, Gena (1977): The Hidden Malpractice: How American Medicine Treats Women as Patients and Professionals. William Morrow & Co..

D

• Dally, Ann (2006): Women Under the Knife: A History of Surgery. N.J.: Castle Books.
• Daly, Mary (1978): Gyn/Ecology, The Meta Ethics of Radical Feminism. Boston, MA.: Beacon Press.
• Dirie, Waris, Miller, Cathleen (2009): Desert Flower: The Extraordinary Journey of a Desert Nomad. Harper Collins.

E

• Ezzat, Dina, A Savage Surgery, The Middle East (Journal), January 1994.

F

• Foster, Charles, On the Trail of a Taboo: Female Circumcision in the Islamic World, Contemporary Review, Vol. 264, No. 1540, May 1994/

G

• Gruenbaum, Ellen (2001): The Female Circumcision Controversy: An Anthropological Perspective. University of Pennsylvania Press.

H

• Herndlund, Ylva, Shell-Duncan, Bettina (2007): Transcultural Bodies: Female Genital Cutting in Global Context. Rutgers University Press.
• Herndlund, Ylva, Shell-Duncan, Bettina (2000): Female Circumcision in Africa: Culture, Controversy and Change. Lynne Reiner.

I

• Ian, Patrick, Responding to Female Genital Mutilation: The Australian Experience in Context, Australian Journal of Social Issues, Vol. 36, No. 1, February 2001.

K

• Koso-Thomas, Olayinka (1987): The Circumcision of Women: A Strategy for Eradication. N.J.: Zed Books, Ltd..

L

• Lightfoot-Klein, Hanny (1989): Prisoners of Ritual: An Odyssey into Female Genital Circumcision in Africa. New York: The Hayworth Press.

M

• Mire, Soraya (2011): The Girl With Three Legs: A Memoir. Chicago Review Press.
• Mohammed, Hawa Noor (2009): Can FGM be Eradicated Through an Alternate Means?. GRIN Verlag - Seminar Papers.

N

• Nnaemeka, Obioma (2005): Female Circumcision and the Politics of Knowledge. Praeger Publishers.

R

• Raya, Patricia Diane, Female Genital Mutilation and the Perpetuation of Multigenerational Trauma, The Journal of Psychohistory, Vol 37, No. 4, Spring 2010.
• Rodriguez, Sarah B. (2014): Female Circumcision and Clitoridectomy in the United States. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press.
• Ross, Susan Dellen (2003): Women's Human Rights: The International and Comparative Law Case Book. University of California Press.

S

• Sands, Kathleen M. (2000): God Forbid: Religion and Sex in American Public Life. Oxford University Press.

T

• Thomas, Lynn M. (2003): Politics of the Womb: Women, Reproduction and the State in Kenya. University of California Press.
• Thomas, J., Female Genital Mutilations Lead to Lost Lives and High Costs, International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, Vol. 36, No. 3, September 2010.
• Tong, Rosemarie, Anderson, Gwen, Santos, Aida (2001): Globalizing Feminist Bioethics: Crosscultural Perspectives. Westview Press.

W

• Wangila, Mary Nyangweso (2007): Female Circumcision: The Interplay of Religion, Culture and Gender in Kenya. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books.
• White, Allan E., Female Genital Mutilation in America: The Federal Dilemma, Texas Journal of Women, Gender and the Law, Vol. 10, No. 2, April 2001.

See also

• Literature