Making the mark : gender, identity, and genital cutting / Miroslava Prazak.

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Prazak, Miroslava [Author]

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online resource

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9780896804975

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GN484 .M355 2016

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Contents:

Trouble with witchcraft -- Boys lead -- Girls follow -- Something different -- Consoling, feasting, and coming out -- Talk, talk, talk -- Where do we go from here? -- Epilogue -- Appendix : Bwirege circumcision sets.

Subject: Why do female genital cutting practices persist? How does circumcision affect the rights of girls in a culture where initiation forms the lynchpin of the ritual cycle at the core of defining gender, identity, and social and political status?

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Introduction -- Trouble with witchcraft -- Boys lead -- Girls follow -- Something different -- Consoling, feasting, and coming out -- Talk, talk, talk -- Where do we go from here? -- Epilogue -- Appendix : Bwirege circumcision sets.

Why do female genital cutting practices persist? How does circumcision affect the rights of girls in a culture where initiation forms the lynchpin of the ritual cycle at the core of defining gender, identity, and social and political status?

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