Genital Cutting And Transnational Sisterhood

Genital Cutting and Transnational Sisterhoodis a much-needed response to the ethnocentric and arrogant Western perceptions surrounding female genital cutting (FGC), often referred to as either female genital mutilation or female circumcision, but which includes a variety of practices of varying history, severity, geographical distribution and consequences. In five provocative essays, the contributors to this timely volume challenge representations of FGC through a range of perspectives: history, human rights, law, missionary feminism, cultural relativism, anthropology, and the intersex movement. Stanlie M. James is chair of the Afro-American Studies Department and associate professor of African American studies and women's studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She is a coeditor ofTheorizing Black Feminisms. Claire C. Robertson is professor of history and women's studies at the Ohio State University and the author ofTrouble Showed the Way: Women, Men, and Trade in the Nairobi Area, 1890-1990and other books.

Stanlie M. James is chair of the Afro-American Studies Department and associate professor of African American studies and women's studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She is coeditor of Theorizing Black Feminisms and the author of articles in Signs, Africa Today, and other journals Claire C. Robertson is professor of history and women's studies at the Ohio State University and the author of Trouble Showed the Way: Women, Men, and Trade in the Nairobi Area, 1890-1990, We Only Come Here to Struggle: Stories from Berida's Life, and Sharing the Same Bowl: A Socioeconomic History of Women and Class in Accra, Ghana. She is coeditor of Women and Slavery in Africa and Women and Class in Africa