Making the Mark - Gender, Identity, and Genital Cutting

Summary

Why do female genital cutting practices persist? How does circumcision affect the rights of girls in a culture where initiation forms the lynchpin of the ritual cycle at the core of defining gender, identity, and social and political status?

Product details

• Authors: Miroslava Prazak
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2016
• EAN: 9780896803091
• ISBN: 978-0-89680-309-1
• No. of pages: 332
• Weight: 531 g
• Series: Ohio Ris Africa; Ohio RIS Africa Series; Research in International Studies, Africa Series; Ohio RIS Africa Series; Research in International Studies, Africa Series
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology