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.