Female Genital Cutting, FGM and FC Resource
Guide
Books – International
Abdullah, R. Sisters in Affliction: Circumcision and Infibulation
of Women in Africa. London: Zed Press, 1982.
Abdel Hady, Amal. We Are Decided: The Struggle of an Egyptian
Village to Eradicate Female Circumcision. Cairo: Cairo Institute
for Human Studies, 1998.
Abdel Hadi, Amal and Seham Abdel-Salam. Physicians’ Attitudes
Towards Female Circumcision. Translated by Mushira Elgeziri.
Cairo: Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies, 1999.
Adams, P and E. Cowie. The Woman in Question. Cambridge:
MIT Press, 1990.
Appiah, K.A. In my Father’s House: Africa in the Philosophy
of Culture. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992.
Ashur, S. D. ed. Silent Tears. London: London Black Women’s
Health Action Project, 1989.
Beidelman, T.O. The Cool Knife: Imagery of Gender, Sexuality,
and Moral Education in Kaguru Initiation Ritual. Washington
D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997
Ballal, Ahmed Ibrahim. Psychological Effects of Female Circumcision.
New York: Vantage Press, 1992.
Bettelheim, B. Symbolic Wounds: Puberty Rites and the Envious
Male. London: Thames and Hudson, 1995.
Bloch, M. From Blessing to Violence: History and Ideology in
the Circumcision Ritual of the Merina in Madagascar. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1986.
Boddy, Janice. Wombs and Alien Spirits: Women, Men and the Zar
Cult in Northern Sudan. U of Wisconsin Press, 1989.
Bonaparte, M. Female Sexuality. New York: International
Universities Press, 1953.
Boone, S. Radiance From the Waters: Ideals of Feminine Beauty
in Mende Art. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986.
Bryk, Felix. Circumcision in Man and Woman: Its History, Psychology
and Ethnology. New York: American Ethnological Press, 1934.
Carr, Dara. Female Genital Cutting: Findings from the Demographic
and Health Survey Program. Maryland: Macro International Inc,
1997.
Cloudsley, Anne. Women of Omdurman: Life, Love and the Cult
of Virginity. London: Ethnographica, 1983.
Cook, R. Damage to Physical Health From Pharaonic Circumcision
(Infibulation) of Females: A Review of the Medical Literature: Traditional
Practices Affecting the Health of Women and Children. Alexandria,
Egypt: World Health Organization, 1979.
Cook, R (ed.) Human Rights of Women: National and International
Perspectives. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press,
1994.
El Dareer, Asma. Woman, Why Do You Weep? London: Zed Press,
1982.
Davies, M. Third World, Second Sex. London: Zed Press, 1983.
Dorkenoo, E. Cutting The Rose-Female Genital Mutilation: The
Practice and Its Prevention. London: Minority Rights Group,
1994.
Dorkenoo, E., and S. Elworthy. Female Genital Mutilation: Proposals
for Change. London: Minority Rights Group, 1992.
Dualeh, R. Sisters in Affliction: Circumcision and Infibulation
of Women in Africa. London: Zed Press, 1982.
Gruenbaum, Ellen. The Female Circumcision Controversy: An Anthropological
Perspective. Philadelphia: University of Philadelphia Press,
2001.
Hicks, Easther K. Infibulation: Female Mutilation in Islamic
Northeastern Africa. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers,
1993.
hooks, bell. Feminist Theory From Margin to Center. Boston:
Southend Press, 1984.
Hosken, F. The Hosken Report: Genital and Sexual Mutilation
of Females. Lexington, Mass.: Women’s International Network
News, 1982.
IAC (Inter-African Committee). Female Genital Mutilation in
Nigeria. (IAC) Nigeria Monograph Series on Harmful and Beneficial
Traditional Practices in Nigeria, No. 1. Ibadan, Nigeria: Ibadan
University Press, 1997.
Jackson, M and I Karp (eds.). Personhood and Agency: The Experience
of Self and Other in African Cultures. Stockholm: Almqvist and
Wiksell International, 1990.
Knudsen, C.O. The Falling Dawadawa Tree: Female Circumcision
in Developing Ghana. Hojberg, Denmark: Intervention Press, 1994.
Koso-Thomas, O. The Circumcision of Women: A Strategy for Eradication.
London: Zed Press, 1987.
Kratz, C. Affecting Performance: Meaning, Movement and Experience
in Okiek Women’s Initiation. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution
Press, 1994.
Lewis, J.M. Blood and Bone: The Call of Kinship in Somali Society.
Lawrenceville, N.J.: Red Sea Press, 1989.
Lightfoot-Klein, H. Prisoners of Ritual: An Odyssey into Female
Genital Circumcision in Africa. New York: Harrington Park Press,
1989.
Lingis, Alphonso. Excesses: Eros and Culture. Albany: State
University of New York Press, 1983.
Lutkehaus, N.C. and P.B. Roscoe. Gender Rituals: Female Initiation
in Melanesia. New York: Routledge, 1995.
MacCormack, C., and M. Strathern (eds.). Nature, Culture and
Gender. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980.
Masterson, Julia and Julie Swanson. Female Genital Cutting:
Breaking the Silence, Enabling Change. The International Center
for Research on Women and The Center for Development and Population
Activities, 2000.
McElroy, A., and P.K. Townsend. Medical Anthropology in an Ecological
Perspective. Boulder, COLO.: Westview Press, 1989.
McLean, S. Female Circumcision, Excision, and Infibulation:
The Facts and Proposals for Change. London: Minority Rights
Group, 1980.
Melching, Molly. Breakthrough in Senegal: The Process Used to
End Female Genital Cutting in 31 Villages in Senegal. New York:
Population Council, 1999.
Moen, Elizabeth Williams. Genital Mutilation: Every Woman’s
Problem. Michigan, Michigan State University, 1983.
Moore, H. Feminism and Anthropology. Minneapolis: University
of Minnesota Press, 1988.
MYWO (Maendeleo Ya Wanawake Organization). Harmful Traditional
Practices That Affect The Health of The Women and Their Children.
Nairobi: MYWO, 1991.
Nabia, A. L’éxcision Feminine. N’Djamena, Chad: UNICEF,
1991.
Négué, F.K., and J. Kemoral. Initiation feminine:
Resultats des recherches sur les possibilities d’amelioration de
l’initiation feminine dans le Moyen-Chari. Sarh, Chad: Cellule
Regional CONA-CIAF de Sarh, 1997.
Parrinder, G. African Mythology. London: Chancellor Press,
1996.
Parsons, R. Religion in African Society. Leiden: J. Brill,
1964.
Petchesky, R. P and K. Judd (eds.). Negotiating Reproductive
Rights: Women’s Perspectives Across Countries and Cultures. London
& New York: Zed Books, 1998.
Rahman, Anika and Nahid Toubia. Female Genital Mutilation: A
Guide to Laws and Policies Worldwide. New York: Zed Books, 2000.
Richards, A. Chisungu. A Girl’s Initiation Ceremony Among the
Bemba of Zambia. London: Routledge, 1982.
Riesman, P. First Find Yourself a Good Mother: The Construction
of Self in Two African Communities. New Brunswick: Rutgers University
Press, 1992.
Rushwan, H., C. Slot, A. El Dareer, and N. Bushra. Female Circumcision
in the Sudan: Prevalence, Complications, Attitudes and Changes.
Khartoum: Faculty of Medicine, University of Khartoum, 1983.
El-Saadawi, Nawal. The Hidden Face of Eve. London: Zed Books,
1980.
Sanderson, L.P. Against The Mutilation of Women: The Struggle
to End Unnecessary Suffering. London: Ithaca Press, 1981.
Sargent, C. Maternity, Medicine, and Power: Reproductive Decisions
in Urban Benin. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989.
Shell-Duncan, Bettina & Ylva Hernlund (eds). Female “Circumcision”
in Africa: Culture, Controversy, & Change. Boulder: Lynne
Rienner, 2000.
Singateh, S. Female Circumcision: The Gambian Experience. Banjul,
the Gambia: Gambia Women’s Bureau, 1985.
Toubia, N and S. Izette. Female Genital Mutilation: An Overview.
Geneva: World Health Organization, 1998.
Toubia, N. Women and Health in Sudan. London: Zed Press,
1988.
van Gennep, A.V. The Rites of Passage. Chicago: University
of Chicago Press, 1960.
Vizedom, M. Rites and Relationships: Rites of Passage and Contemporary
Anthropology. London: Sage Publications, 1976.
Walker, Alice. Possessing The Secret of Joy. New York: Harcourt
Brace Jovanovich, 1995.
Walker, A., and P. Pramar. Warrior Marks: Female Genital Mutilation
and the Sexual Binding of Women. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1993.