Janice Boddy
Biographic Data
| ID | 3585790 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Janice Boddy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Janice |
| FAMILY NAME | Boddy |
| SIGNATURE | BODDY J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Harms of the current global anti-FGM campaign
Traditional female genital practices, though long-standing in many cultures, have become the focus of an expansive global campaign against ‘female genital mutilation’ (FGM). In this article, we critically examine the harms produced by the anti-FGM discourse and policies, despite their grounding in human rights and health advocacy. We argue that a ubiquitous ‘standard tale’ obscures the diversity of practices, meanings and experiences among those …
How Canadian Law Shapes the Health Care Experiences of Women with Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting/Circumcision and Their Providers: A Disjuncture Between Expectation and Actuality
This study explored how the reproductive health care experiences of women with female genital mutilation/cutting/circumcision (FGC) were shaped. We used Institutional Ethnography, a sociological approach which allows for the study of social relations and the coordination of health care. From qualitatively interviewing eight women with FGC, we learned that they felt excluded within the Canadian health care system because they were unable to access…
Anthropology, Feminism and the Postmodern Context
In a recent article, Marylin Strathern (1987) suggested that feminism and anthropology exist in fundamental tension, stemming from the different ways they constitute their subject matter as “other,” and from their divergent conceptualizations of experience. Whereas anthropology attempts, if incompletely, to bridge the gap between self and other, the authority of feminism resides in the maintenance of that gap – here, between women and men. Howeve…
Othered and Disoriented in No Man’s Land
A Companion to the Anthropology of Religion
Winkler, Hans Alexander: Ghost Riders of Upper Egypt. A Study of Spirit Possession
Anthropos , Seite 697 - 698
Clash of Selves: Gender, Personhood, and Human Rights Discourse in Colonial Sudan
(2007). Clash of Selves: Gender, Personhood, and Human Rights Discourse in Colonial Sudan. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines: Vol. 41, Redéfinition des droits en Afrique: Le combat pour leur trouver un sens et le sens du combat, pp. 402-426
Barbaric Custom and Colonial Science: Teaching the Female Body in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
This chapter explores the process of reforming 'refractory' female bodies in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. It discusses the goals of the Midwives Training School in Omdurman and the methods of the British women who established it during the 1920s and 1930s in light of ethnographic data from the rural north. I suggest that while midwifery training had contradictory outcomes and failed to under mine the logic that underpinned the practice of pharaonic …
Writing Aman: The Perils and Politics of the Popular Book
L'A. expose ses arguments sur le choix d'une nouvelle publication de son ouvrage «Aman, l'histoire d'une femme de Somalie» qui a connu un succes populaire dans de nombreux pays. La transcription d'une histoire de vie souleve le probleme de l'ecriture de l'ethnologie, de la representativite d'un cas individuel comme moyen d'une comprehension plus generale de la societe, de la subjectivite de la narratrice et des apports de ce genre litteraire a la…
Sex and the Empire That Is No More: Gender and the Politics of Metaphor in Qyo Yoruba Religion
Sex and the Empire That Is No More: Gender and the Politics of Metaphor in Qyo Yoruba Religion. J. LORAND MATORY. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1994. xviii + 295 pp., figures, photographs, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index
The Body Nearer the Self
Colonizing the Body: State Medicine and Epidemic Disease in Nineteenth-Century India. David Arnold.Reading the Social Body. Catherine T. Burroughs and Jeffrey David Ehrenreich, eds.Little Big Men: Bodybuilding Subculture and Gender Construction. Alan M. Klein
Cultivating Workers: Peasants and Capitalism in a Sudanese Village. Victoria Bernal
Comment On the Proposed Dsm-Iv Criteria for Trance and Possession Disorder
Sacred Performances: Islam, Sexuality, and Sacrifice . M. E. Combs‐Schilling
Women's Medicine: The Zar-Bori Cult in Africa and Beyond
Otienberg, Simon, Boyhood Rituals in an African Socieiy: An Interpretation
Wombs and Alien Spirits: Women, Men and the Zar Cult in Northern Sudan
Wombs and Alien Spirits: Women, Men, and the zar Cult in Northern Sudan
Blood Magic: The Anthropology of Menstruation. THOMAS BUCKLEY and Alma GOTTLIEB
Linguistic Anthropology: The Listening Ebony: Moral Knowledge, Religion, and Power Among the Uduk of Sudan. Wendy James
Wombs and Alien Spirits: Women, Men, and the zar Cult in Northern Sudan
The Body Nearer the Self
Colonizing the Body: State Medicine and Epidemic Disease in Nineteenth-Century India. David Arnold.Reading the Social Body. Catherine T. Burroughs and Jeffrey David Ehrenreich, eds.Little Big Men: Bodybuilding Subculture and Gender Construction. Alan M. Klein
Anthropology, Feminism and the Postmodern Context
In a recent article, Marylin Strathern (1987) suggested that feminism and anthropology exist in fundamental tension, stemming from the different ways they constitute their subject matter as “other,” and from their divergent conceptualizations of experience. Whereas anthropology attempts, if incompletely, to bridge the gap between self and other, the authority of feminism resides in the maintenance of that gap – here, between women and men. Howeve…
Wombs and Alien Spirits: Women, Men and the Zar Cult in Northern Sudan
Blood Magic: The Anthropology of Menstruation. THOMAS BUCKLEY and Alma GOTTLIEB
Linguistic Anthropology: The Listening Ebony: Moral Knowledge, Religion, and Power Among the Uduk of Sudan. Wendy James
Otienberg, Simon, Boyhood Rituals in an African Socieiy: An Interpretation
Wombs and Alien Spirits: Women, Men and the Zar Cult in Northern Sudan
Wombs and Alien Spirits: Women, Men, and the zar Cult in Northern Sudan
Comment On the Proposed Dsm-Iv Criteria for Trance and Possession Disorder
Sacred Performances: Islam, Sexuality, and Sacrifice . M. E. Combs‐Schilling
Women's Medicine: The Zar-Bori Cult in Africa and Beyond
Cultivating Workers: Peasants and Capitalism in a Sudanese Village. Victoria Bernal
The Body Nearer the Self
Colonizing the Body: State Medicine and Epidemic Disease in Nineteenth-Century India. David Arnold.Reading the Social Body. Catherine T. Burroughs and Jeffrey David Ehrenreich, eds.Little Big Men: Bodybuilding Subculture and Gender Construction. Alan M. Klein
Writing Aman: The Perils and Politics of the Popular Book
L'A. expose ses arguments sur le choix d'une nouvelle publication de son ouvrage «Aman, l'histoire d'une femme de Somalie» qui a connu un succes populaire dans de nombreux pays. La transcription d'une histoire de vie souleve le probleme de l'ecriture de l'ethnologie, de la representativite d'un cas individuel comme moyen d'une comprehension plus generale de la societe, de la subjectivite de la narratrice et des apports de ce genre litteraire a la…
Sex and the Empire That Is No More: Gender and the Politics of Metaphor in Qyo Yoruba Religion
Sex and the Empire That Is No More: Gender and the Politics of Metaphor in Qyo Yoruba Religion. J. LORAND MATORY. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1994. xviii + 295 pp., figures, photographs, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index
Barbaric Custom and Colonial Science: Teaching the Female Body in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
This chapter explores the process of reforming 'refractory' female bodies in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. It discusses the goals of the Midwives Training School in Omdurman and the methods of the British women who established it during the 1920s and 1930s in light of ethnographic data from the rural north. I suggest that while midwifery training had contradictory outcomes and failed to under mine the logic that underpinned the practice of pharaonic …
Clash of Selves: Gender, Personhood, and Human Rights Discourse in Colonial Sudan
(2007). Clash of Selves: Gender, Personhood, and Human Rights Discourse in Colonial Sudan. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines: Vol. 41, Redéfinition des droits en Afrique: Le combat pour leur trouver un sens et le sens du combat, pp. 402-426
Winkler, Hans Alexander: Ghost Riders of Upper Egypt. A Study of Spirit Possession
Anthropos , Seite 697 - 698
A Companion to the Anthropology of Religion
Anthropology, Feminism and the Postmodern Context
In a recent article, Marylin Strathern (1987) suggested that feminism and anthropology exist in fundamental tension, stemming from the different ways they constitute their subject matter as “other,” and from their divergent conceptualizations of experience. Whereas anthropology attempts, if incompletely, to bridge the gap between self and other, the authority of feminism resides in the maintenance of that gap – here, between women and men. Howeve…
Othered and Disoriented in No Man’s Land
How Canadian Law Shapes the Health Care Experiences of Women with Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting/Circumcision and Their Providers: A Disjuncture Between Expectation and Actuality
This study explored how the reproductive health care experiences of women with female genital mutilation/cutting/circumcision (FGC) were shaped. We used Institutional Ethnography, a sociological approach which allows for the study of social relations and the coordination of health care. From qualitatively interviewing eight women with FGC, we learned that they felt excluded within the Canadian health care system because they were unable to access…
Harms of the current global anti-FGM campaign
Traditional female genital practices, though long-standing in many cultures, have become the focus of an expansive global campaign against ‘female genital mutilation’ (FGM). In this article, we critically examine the harms produced by the anti-FGM discourse and policies, despite their grounding in human rights and health advocacy. We argue that a ubiquitous ‘standard tale’ obscures the diversity of practices, meanings and experiences among those …
Sociology (16 works) · History (12 works) · Anthropology (9 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · African history and culture analysis (6 works) · Ancient history (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works)