Literature about female genital mutilation (FGM)

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• 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, Female Circumcision, Multicultural Perspectives, University of Pennsylvania Press, c. 2006.

B

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

C

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

D

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

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, The Female Circumcision Controversy: An Anthropological Perspective, University of Pennsylvania Press, c. 2001.

H

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

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, The Circumcision of Women: A Strategy for Eradication, Zed Books, Ltd., N.J., c. 1987.

L

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

M

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

N

• Nnaemeka, Obioma, Female Circumcision and the Politics of Knowledge, Praeger Publishers, Westport, CT., c. 2005.

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., Female Circumcision and Clitoridectomy in the United States, University of Rochester Press, Rochester, NY, c. 2014.
• Ross, Susan Dellen, Women's Human Rights: The International and Comparative Law Case Book, University of California Press, c. 2003.

S

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

T

• Thomas, Lynn M., Politics of the Womb: Women, Reproduction and the State in Kenya, University of California Press, c. 2003.
• 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, Globalizing Feminist Bioethics: Crosscultural Perspectives, Westview Press, c. 2001.

W

• Wangila, Mary Nyangweso, Female Circumcision: The Interplay of Religion, Culture and Gender in Kenya, Orbis Books, Maryknoll, NY, c. 2007.
• 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.