Female Circumcision: Multicultural Perspectives

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[...] Aldeeb finds that it comes down to human rights. Methinks they protest too much! [...] reading between the lines, they are evidently twisting their respondents' words to make them conform sufficiently with their feminist shibboleths.

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Female Circumcision: Multicultural Perspectives

Book Review Female Circumcision: Multicultural Perspectives. Edited by Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. 287 pp. www. upenn. edu/pennpress. No price stated on cover but website gives price as $19.95.

Review by J. Steven Svoboda

Longtime Sudanese-American activist against female genital cutting (FGC) Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf has edited Female Circumcision: Multicultural Perspectives. For better and for worse, this book exemplifies the strength...

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