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While never departing from being a book about genital cutting, Children 's Genitals Under the Knife may contain the broadest overview ever presented of the complex larger social context underlying and overlaying the pervasive set of human rights violations represented by genital cutting. The author acerbically notes the frequency with which Western critics pick this particular practice to pile onto while overlooking problems viewed by Africans as even more essential such as obtaining safe water, reducing infant mortality, and improving health care.
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Children's Genitals Under the Knife
Book Review Children's Genitals Under the Knife. By Hanny Lightfoot-Klein. Charleston, South Carolina: BookSurge Publishing, 2007. www.booksurge.com. 201 pages. No price on book cover but website gives price as $20.00.
Review by J. Steven Svoboda.Hanny Lightfoot-Klein is o...See the full content of this document
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