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Making the Mark

- Gender, Identity, and Genital Cutting
Af: Miroslava Prazak Engelsk Paperback

Making the Mark

- Gender, Identity, and Genital Cutting
Af: Miroslava Prazak Engelsk Paperback
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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? In Making the Mark, Miroslava Prazak follows the practice of female circumcision through the lives and activities of community members in a rural Kenyan farming society as they decide whether or not to participate in the tradition.
In an ethnography twenty years in the making, Prazak weaves multiple Kuria perspectives—those of girls, boys, family members, circumcisers, political and religious leaders—into a riveting account. Though many books have been published on the topic of genital cutting, this is one of the few ethnographies to give voice to evolving perspectives of practitioners, especially through a period of intense anticutting campaigning on the part of international NGOs, local activists, and donor organizations. Prazak also examines the cultural challenges that complicate the human-rights anti-FGM stance.
Set in the rolling hills of southwestern Kenya, Making the Mark examines the influences that shape and change female genital cutting over time, presenting a rich mosaic of the voices contributing to the debate over this life-altering ritual.

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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? In Making the Mark, Miroslava Prazak follows the practice of female circumcision through the lives and activities of community members in a rural Kenyan farming society as they decide whether or not to participate in the tradition.
In an ethnography twenty years in the making, Prazak weaves multiple Kuria perspectives—those of girls, boys, family members, circumcisers, political and religious leaders—into a riveting account. Though many books have been published on the topic of genital cutting, this is one of the few ethnographies to give voice to evolving perspectives of practitioners, especially through a period of intense anticutting campaigning on the part of international NGOs, local activists, and donor organizations. Prazak also examines the cultural challenges that complicate the human-rights anti-FGM stance.
Set in the rolling hills of southwestern Kenya, Making the Mark examines the influences that shape and change female genital cutting over time, presenting a rich mosaic of the voices contributing to the debate over this life-altering ritual.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 332
ISBN-13: 9780896803107
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0896803104
Udg. Dato: 15 sep 2016
Længde: 20mm
Bredde: 290mm
Højde: 142mm
Forlag: Ohio University Press
Oplagsdato: 15 sep 2016
Forfatter(e): Miroslava Prazak
Forfatter(e) Miroslava Prazak


Kategori Kønsstudier: kvinder og piger


ISBN-13 9780896803107


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 332


Udgave


Længde 20mm


Bredde 290mm


Højde 142mm


Udg. Dato 15 sep 2016


Oplagsdato 15 sep 2016


Forlag Ohio University Press

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