Bringing together thirteen essays, Transcultural Bodies provides an ethnographically rich exploration of FGC among African diasporas in the United Kingdom, Europe, and Australia. Contributors analyze changes in ideologies of gender and sexuality in immigrant communities, the frequent marginalization of African women's voices in debates over FGC, and controversies over legislation restricting the practice in immigrant populations.
Bringing together thirteen essays, Transcultural Bodies provides an ethnographically rich exploration of FGC among African diasporas in the United Kingdom, Europe, and Australia. Contributors analyze changes in ideologies of gender and sexuality in immigrant communities, the frequent marginalization of African women's voices in debates over FGC, and controversies over legislation restricting the practice in immigrant populations.
List of Tables Preface 1. Transcultural Positions: Negotiating Rights and Culture by Ylva Hernlund and Bettina Shell-Duncan 2. Gender Crusades: The Female Circumcision Controversy in Cultural Perspective by Janice Boddy 3. A Refuge from Tradition and the Refuge of Tradition: On Anticircumcision Paradigms by L. Amede Obiora 4. Female Circumcision in Africa and Beyond: The Anthropology of a Difficult Issue by Aud Talle 5. Persistence of Tradition or Reassessment of Cultural Practices in Exile? Discourses on Female Circumcision among and about Swedish Somalis by Sara Johnsdotter 6. Managing Cultural Diversity in Australia: Legislating Female Circumcision, Legislating Communities by Juliet Rogers 7. Representing Africa in the Kasinga Asylum Case by Charles Piot 8. Seeking Asylum, Debating Values, and Setting Precedents in the 1990s: The Cases of Kassindja and Abankwah in the United States by Corinne A. Kratz 9. Making Mandinga or Making Muslims? Debating Female Circumcision, Ethnicity, and Islam in Guinea-Bissau and Portugal by Michelle C. Johnson 10. Infibulation and the Orgasm Puzzle: Sexual Experiences of Infibulated Eritrean Women in Rural Eritrea and Melbourne, Australia by Mansura Dopico 11. Experiencing Sex in Exile: Can Genitals Change Their Gender? On Conceptions and Experiences Related to Female Genital Cutting (FGC) among Somalis in Norway by R. Elise B. Johansen 12. "Ain't I a Woman Too?": Challenging Myths of Sexual Dysfunction in Circumcised Women by Fuambai Ahmadu 13. The Failure of Pluralism? by Henrietta L. Moore Bibliography Index
List of Tables Preface 1. Transcultural Positions: Negotiating Rights and Culture by Ylva Hernlund and Bettina Shell-Duncan 2. Gender Crusades: The Female Circumcision Controversy in Cultural Perspective by Janice Boddy 3. A Refuge from Tradition and the Refuge of Tradition: On Anticircumcision Paradigms by L. Amede Obiora 4. Female Circumcision in Africa and Beyond: The Anthropology of a Difficult Issue by Aud Talle 5. Persistence of Tradition or Reassessment of Cultural Practices in Exile? Discourses on Female Circumcision among and about Swedish Somalis by Sara Johnsdotter 6. Managing Cultural Diversity in Australia: Legislating Female Circumcision, Legislating Communities by Juliet Rogers 7. Representing Africa in the Kasinga Asylum Case by Charles Piot 8. Seeking Asylum, Debating Values, and Setting Precedents in the 1990s: The Cases of Kassindja and Abankwah in the United States by Corinne A. Kratz 9. Making Mandinga or Making Muslims? Debating Female Circumcision, Ethnicity, and Islam in Guinea-Bissau and Portugal by Michelle C. Johnson 10. Infibulation and the Orgasm Puzzle: Sexual Experiences of Infibulated Eritrean Women in Rural Eritrea and Melbourne, Australia by Mansura Dopico 11. Experiencing Sex in Exile: Can Genitals Change Their Gender? On Conceptions and Experiences Related to Female Genital Cutting (FGC) among Somalis in Norway by R. Elise B. Johansen 12. "Ain't I a Woman Too?": Challenging Myths of Sexual Dysfunction in Circumcised Women by Fuambai Ahmadu 13. The Failure of Pluralism? by Henrietta L. Moore Bibliography Index
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