Prisoners of Ritual: An Odyssey Into Female Genital Circumcision in Africa

Lightfoot Klein, Hanny

ISBN 10: 091839368X / ISBN 13: 9780918393685

Verlag: Routledge, 1989

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Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 058672

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Prisoners of Ritual: An Odyssey Into Female Genital Circumcision in Africa
• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1989
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 091839368X
• ISBN-13: 9780918393685
• Einband: Encuadernación de tapa blanda
• Zustand: Muy bien

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This unique volume focuses on the psychosexual and social effects of female genital mutilation, an ancient, deeply entrenched custom saturating the larger part of Africa. Over a period of six years, Author Hanny Lightfoot-Klein trekked through outlying areas of Sudan, Kenya, and Egypt, where she lived with a number of African families. What she learned by way of in-depth personal interviews and firsthand observation has enabled her to add a previously unknown and often astonishing dimension to our knowledge of ritual practices and human sexuality. This valuable book will be extremely helpful to professionals and scholars in women's studies, social psychology, psychotherapy, psychiatry, gynecology, sexology, as well as cross-cultural and African studies. It should also interest anyone who is concerned with male circumcision in the United States.