The campaign against Female Genital Cutting: empowering women or reinforcing global inequity?
This paper explores the issue of Female Genital Cutting (FGC), starting with the story of how the practice changed and was permanently abandoned in a single generation in a rural Iranian town in the 1950s. Two striking features of this example—its direction by religious men, and the shift to less se...
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Routledge
2016
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/44973 |