Female "Circumcision" in Africa : Culture, Controversy, and Change

Preface vii Female ``Circumcision'' in Africa: Dimensions of the Practice and Debates 1(40) Bettina Shell-Duncan Ylva Hernlund Is Female ``Circumcision'' a Maladaptive Cultural Pattern? 41(14) Ellen Gruenbaum To Marry and Bear Children? The Demographic Consequences of Infibulation in Sudan 55(18) Deborah Balk Female ``Circumcision'' Among the Yoruba of Southwestern Nigeria: The Beginning of Change 73(22) I. O. Orubuloye Pat Caldwell John C. Caldwell Female Genital Cutting in Nigeria: Views of Nigerian Doctors on the Medicalization Debate 95(14) Mairo Usman Mandara Women Without Choices: The Debate over Medicalization of Female Genital Cutting and Its Impact on a Northern Kenyan Community 109(20) Bettina Shell-Duncan Walter Obungu Obiero Leunita Auko Muruli ``Ngaitana (I Will Circumcise Myself)'': Lessons from Colonial Campaigns to Ban Excision in Meru, Kenya 129(22) Lynn Thomas Revisiting Feminist Discourses on Infibulation: Responses from Sudanese Feminists 151(16) Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf Adopting Female ``Circumcision'' in Southern Chad: The Experience of Myabe 167(26) Lori Leonard Handing over the Knife: Numu Women and the Campaign Against Excision in Mali 193(22) Claudie Gosselin Becoming a Muslim, Becoming a Person: Female ``Circumcision,'' Religious Identity, and Personhood in Guinea-Bissau 215(20) Michelle C. Johnson Cutting Without Ritual and Ritual Without Cutting: Female ``Circumcision'' and the Re-ritualization of Initiation in the Gambia 235(18) Ylva Hernlund Female Genital Cutting: The Beginning of the End 253(30) Gerry Mackie Rites and Wrongs: An Insider/Outsider Reflects on Power and Excision 283(30) Fuambai Ahmadu Bibliography 313(18) The Contributors 331(2) Index 333(16) About the Book 349