Projected Cultural Histories of the Cutting of Female Genitalia
A Poor Reflection as in a Mirror
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2156261 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sara Johnsdotter (0000-0002-7625-5873, Malmö University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 91-114 |
| Publication date | 2012-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History and Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0275-7206 • E-ISSN: 1477-2612 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02757206.2012.649270 |
| OpenAlex | W2111958642 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 60 |
Current public debate on “female genital mutilation” often renders the impression that it is possible to draw an unambiguous line between acceptable and condemnable practices of female genital cutting. In this paper, the cultural histories of cutting of the female genitalia are presented and discussed. Available historical accounts of female circumcision practices in Africa reflect Western, mainly European, ideas and ideologies at certain points in time. In a sense, these descriptions have more to say about “us” than “them”. Further, the historical descriptions of female circumcision in Africa are intertwined with time-bound notions and cutting practices in Western countries in different epochs. Through retrospective reflections, it is possible to see how current commonsensical standpoints, among them the hegemony of a “zero tolerance” attitude regarding cutting of the female genitalia among Africans, are a product of a recently introduced perspective, and also how this generally accepted perspective may render it more difficult to present multi-faceted ethnographic accounts of lived experiences today
Aesthetics · Art · Ethnography · Female circumcision · Hegemony · Ideology · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Sociology · Visual arts · Anthropology · Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting Issues · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies · Gender Studies · Genital Health and Disease · History · Law · Medicine
The Effect of Totalising Otherness in the Fight Against Female Genital Mutilation
Female genital cutting in Hargeisa, Somaliland
Médias, droit et panique morale
Successful Approaches to Ending Female Genital Cutting
Towards a gender perspective in qualitative research on voluntary medical male circumcision in east and southern Africa
Exploring the Role of Traditional Women Society Membership Among West African Immigrant Women Who Have Experienced Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting
Female Genital Mutilation
Pre-crime, hyper-vigilance and the over-surveillance of migrant-heritage families in ‘FGM-safeguarding’ in England and Wales
Fuambai's strength
Nature's body
The Hosken report
The East African coast
Making Sex
Gyn/ecology
Politics of the Womb
Civilizing Women
The gender/sexuality reader
In Search of (Better) Sexual Pleasure
Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting in the UK
Why Aren’t Jewish Women Circumcised
It was affecting the medical profession”
Infibulation
Circumcision Circumscribed
The Frightful Consequences of Onanism
Disputing the myth of the sexual dysfunction of circumcised women
Politics of the Womb
Marie Bonaparte's Theory of Female Sexuality
The Women Are Doing It for Themselves
Sexualities in Victorian Britain
Ending Footbinding and Infibulation
Victorian Clitoridectomy
Circumcision
Male and female circumcision in Africa from a regional to a specific Nigerian examination
Dualisms and female bodies in representations of African female circumcision
Jomo Kenyatta, Marie Bonaparte and Bronislaw Malinowski on Clitoridectomy and Female Sexuality
Some Aspects of the Hamitic Problem in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
Genitals and ethnicity
The Visit of Frederick Forbes to the Somali Coast in 1833
Contingency, Context, and Change
Curing Cut or Ritual Mutilation
Ethnohistory and Islamic Tradition in Africa
The Meaning of Paternity and the Virgin Birth Debate
Genital Cutting and Western Discourses on Sexuality
Female Genital Surgeries
Safeguarding Women's Bodies
Female genital mutilation, fertility control, women's roles, and the patrilineage in modern Sudan
Inclusive Fitness and Human Family Structure
We Did It for Pleasure Only
Sociobiology and Sociology
Anthropology and Circumcision
From Health to Human Rights
Anthropology, liberalism and female genital cutting
Regions Based on Social Structure
Moral Models in Anthropology
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,75 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2026 (13) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |