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Female Genital Mutilation

Suggested Reading


Abdalla, Raqiya Haji Dualeh
1982 Sisters in Affliction: Circumcision and Infibulation of Women in Africa.

Kouba, Leonard and Judith Muasher
1985 Female Circumcision in Africa: an Overview. African Studies Review.

Lightfoot-Klein, Hanny and Evelyn Shaw
1991 Special Needs of Ritually Circumcised Women Patients. Journal of Obsteric, Gynecology and Neonatal Nursing.

Lowenstein, L.F.
1978 Attitudes and Attitude Differences to Female Genital Mutilation in the Sudan: Is there a Change on the Horizon? Social Science and Medicine.

Lyons, Harriet
1981 Anthropologists, Moralities, and Relativities: the Problem of Genital Mutilations. Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology.

Messing, Simon D.
1980 The Problem of Operations Based on Custom in Applied Anthropology: The Challenge of the Hosken Report on Genital and Sexual Mutilations of Females.

Shaw, Evelyn
1985 Female Circumcision: What Kind of Maternity Care do Circumcised Women Need? And can United States Caregivers Provide it? American Journal of Nursing.

Slack, Alison
1988 Female Circumcision: A Critical Appraisal. Human Rights Quarterly.

Thiam,Awa
1983 Women's Fight for the Abolition of Sexual Mutilation International Social Science Journal.

Toubia, Nahid
1995 Genital Mutilation: A Call for Global Action.

Van Der Kwaak, Anke
1992 Female Circumcision and Gender Identity: A Questionable Alliance? Social Science and Medicine.