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Kiminta a Maasai's Fight Against Female Genital Mutilation
Kiminta, a Maasai subjected to female genital mutilation, tells her personal story in order to encourage abandonment of a harmful tradition. Having moved to Germany, she espouses a human rights position, arguing for government accountability and application of international conventions to stop the disability and pain. Her memoir is amplified by source material, making the book suitable for classroom use.
The Routledge International Handbook of Harmful Cultural Practices
This handbook looks at cross-cultural work on harmful cultural practices considered gendered forms of abuse of women. These include female genital mutilation (FGM), virginity testing, hymenoplasty, and genital cosmetic surgery. Bringing together comparative perspectives, intersectionality, and interdisciplinarity, it uses feminist methodology and mixed methods, with ethnography of central importance, to provide holistic, grounded theorizing within a framework of transformative research. Taking female genital mutilation, a topical, contested practice, and making it a heuristic reference for related procedures makes the case for global action based on understanding the complexity of harmful cu...
Empathy and Rage
The intense emotional responses of empathy and rage bracket a spectrum of feelings people confront when they consider the millions of women and girls who have undergone bolokoli, takhoundi, tukore ir gudni'in - names in local languages for a procedure that mutilates female genitalia. Contributors not content with silent acquiescence have shown the courage to oppose a harmful practice that continues to plague women of African descent sentenced to a life of suffering through a damaging tradition.
Violence
Emergent technologies, including ambient intelligence and pervasive computing, promise a considerable advance in the way people use virtual communities, and new, innovative applications are making virtual communities more dynamic and usable than ever. Virtual Community Building and the Information Society: Current and Future Directions offers a holistic approach to virtual communities, providing relevant theoretical frameworks and presenting the latest empirical research on virtual technology, infrastructures, content modeling, knowledge modeling, content management, context awareness, mobility, security and trust. It also explores the social impact and applications of virtual communities, providing valuable insights for professionals, researchers, and managers in fields including information systems, computer science, knowledge management, software engineering, healthcare, business, information and communication sciences, education, and sociology who want to improve their understanding of the strategic role of virtual communities in the information society.
Feminists Who Changed America, 1963-1975
Documents the key feminists who ignited the second wave women's movement. This work tells the stories of more than two thousand individual women and a few notable men who together reignited the women's movement and made permanent changes to entrenched customs and laws.
In the Name of Tradition
The first book on female genital mutilation in Iran, Ahmady focuses most sharply on FGM-affected areas West Azerbaijan, Kurdistan and Kermanshah provinces, and some areas in southern Iran, Hormozgan province and its islands, but you will find a comprehensive overview of the custom's prevalence throughout the entire country. A pioneering work.
European Women's Studies Guide
Women's International Studies Europe (WISE) is a feminist studies association which propotes women's studies teaching, research and publication in Europe. WISE aims to initiate and facilitate the exchange of students and staff and to defend the interests of women's studies on a European level. To that end, WISE publishes a newsletter, collects and disseminates information, advises its members, organizes seminars and develops and supports other initiatives related to women's studies.
Eradicating Female Genital Mutilation
This ground-breaking handbook details the present situation with regard to female genital mutilation (FGM) in Britain, referring also to other western nations where FGM occurs. It scrutinizes current pathways to eradicating this often dangerous, sometimes lethal, form of child abuse and gender-related violence. This book makes the case urgently for developing a shared, coherent model - a multi-disciplinary paradigm - as the basis to achieve the eradication of FGM. The text will be required reading for health, legal, educational and social services professionals, as well as researchers, policy makers, school governors, journalists and other concerned citizens.
Women's Studies in Europe
   This issue of WSQ examines the complex and uneven development of European women's studies in Belgium, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, The Netherlands, Nordic countries, Spain, and the United Kingdom.
Gender and Authority across Disciplines, Space and Time
This edited collection investigates the relationship between gender and authority across geographical contexts, periods and fields. Who is recognized as a legitimate voice in debate and decision-making, and how is that legitimization produced? Through a variety of methodological approaches, the chapters address some of the most pressing and controversial themes under scrutiny in current feminist scholarship and activism, such as pornography, political representation, LGBTI struggles, female genital mutilation, the #MeToo movement, abortion, divorce and consent. Organized into three sections, “Politics,” “Law and Religion,” and “Imaginaries,” the contributors highlight formal and ...
