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Loading... Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting: Global Zero Tolerance Policy and Diverse Responses from African and Asian Local Communities (edition 2023)by Kyoko Nakamura (Editor), Kaori Miyachi (Editor), Yukio Miyawaki (Editor), Makiko Toda (Editor)
Work InformationFemale Genital Mutilation/Cutting: Global Zero Tolerance Policy and Diverse Responses from African and Asian Local Communities by Nakamura Kyoko
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. An interesting range of articles, reflecting a diversity of opinions, on female FGM/C. Some default to speaking about the most extreme form, infibulation, which most can agree should be eliminated for a variety of reasons, including health complications. But the Zero Tolerance encompasses Type IV nicks and pricks, which one chapter acknowledges is less injurious than what males experience with their own circumcisions, which go uncritiqued in the furor to preserve and protect females. So the powers-that-be are pushing a problematic and inconsistent position, which makes more difficult effecting any substantial change of even the worst forms. There's much improvement yet to go, but not that will come from western feminists being insensitive to the local understandings of the women involved. ( ) no reviews | add a review
This open access book shows how the adoption of global justice, such as eradication of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C), has given rise to controversy, resistance, and transformation at the national, regional, and grass-roots levels in African and Asian countries where FGM/C has been practiced. It provides readers with up-to-date information about the effects of the campaign to eradicate FGM/C and the present situation of those countries, to which preceding books on FGM/C have scarcely referred. Adopting "zero tolerance" as a policy of eradication, WHO and other UN agencies have opposed any type of FGM/C, and many African countries have criminalized the practice. Although the campaign is based on the human rights discourse which is shared globally, the controversies concerning eradication of FGM/C on the national level and the responses of communities on the local level in those countries are diverse and complicated. Various actors such as NGOs, government officials, religious leaders, medical workers, and local inhabitants are embroiled and negotiate with each other concerning its eradication. With this book, readers are provided with an in-depth analysis of the complicated controversies and responses of local communities, referring to their particular historical and social backgrounds. The book provides two chapters on FGM/C in Asian countries, where not many studies have done yet. It also presents readers with a study of the arguments and responses to FGM/C of African immigrants by Australian health-care professionals as well as a study of male circumcision eradication campaigns, which have been carried on in tandem with FGM/C eradication campaigns but still not have been successful. With its many elaborate case studies, this book is highly recommended to readers who seek an in-depth and up-to-date integrated overview of the FGM/C studies as well as studies on the applicability of global justice to local communities. This book won the 13th (2023) Japan Consortium for Area Studies (JCAS) Award for Social Collaboration No library descriptions found. |
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