Female mutilation : a global journey behind the curtains of the horrifying worldwide practice of female genital mutilation / Hilary Burrage.
"The number of girls and women affected around the world are staggering. Death is not an uncommon outcome. Female genital mutilation (FGM) is the partial or complete removal of the external female genitals for cultural rather than medical or religious reasons -- its origin is unknown. Practitioners...
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Language: | English |
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London :
New Holland Publishers Pty Ltd,
2016.
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Physical Description: | 199 pages ; 24 cm |
Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Preface / Dr. Morissanda Koutaté
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- FGM is everyone's business
- What is female genital mutilation?
- Kenya
- Sub-Saharan and Southern Africa (Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Somalia, Uganda, Malawi)
- Egypt, the Middle-East and Southeast Asia (Egypt, yemen, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, Malaysia, Indonesia)
- Australia
- North America (Canada and the United States)
- Continental Europe (Norway, France, Germany, Italy)
- United Kingdom
- What next?
- Index of contributors.