The Routledge International Handbook of Harmful Cultural Practices

Part One: Discourses and Epistemological Faultlines. 1.Constructing Excision, Writing Pain. 2.Reflections on Femininity and FGM. 3.FGM/C and the Female Perpetrator: Analysis of an Underdeveloped Figure. 4.The Archaeology of Female Genital Mutilation in German National Politics: "We-groups", othering, and the pertinence of intersecting discourses "FGM and Femininity". Part Two: FGM and Related Patriarchal Inscriptions. 5.Trends in Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting: A qualitative investigation focusing on mothers of circumcised Nigerian girls. 6.The British Campaign to Ban Virginity Testing and Hymenoplasty. 7.Is it really "easier to dig a hole than build a pole"? Feminist reflections on genital surgery for children born with ambiguous genitalia. Part Three: Gender and Genitalia. 8.Circumcision as Inscriptions of Gender: Implications of Eradication or Sustenance. 9.Patriarchal Inscription on African Women: Negotiating Zero Tolerance for FGM. 10.Marginalization of community voices in fighting female circumcision. Part Four: Female Bodies and Body Politics: Economics, Law, Health, and Human Rights. 11.What did the judge say? A comparative analysis of selected FGM case law in high-income & low-income countries. 12.FGM Studies: Economics, Public Health, and Societal Wellbeing. 13.FGM â" Health, law, education and sustainable goals through upstream and downstream approaches. 14.Reclaiming Autonomy of Body: Comparing Memoirs by Khady Ko¯ta and Hibo Wardere. 15.Emotional and behavioral consequences of FGM/C among West African women residents in the United States. 16.FGM in one of the worldâs richest countries: the case of Singapore. Part Five: Placing Engagement, Innovation, Impact, Care. 17."The law against Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) can scare people from performing FGM, but it doesnât change their attitudes": Findings of a qualitative study in Leeds, United Kingdom. 18.Morbidity due to Female Genital Mutilation: A Scoping Review. 19.Female Genital Mutilation in African and African Diaspora Memoir and Fiction. 20.Assessment of oral media utilization on âfemale circumcisionâ among the Abagusii of Kenya. Part Six: Words and Texts to Shatter Silence. 21.Voices to End Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting: Using Digital Storytelling to End a Harmful Social Norm. 22.FGM in Germany in the Context of Migration. 23.âI'm going to be judged for having FGMâ: national health service experiences described by women affected by female genital mutilation in the United Kingdom and Europe. 24."This is not my fatherland." Female Genital Mutilation: Stories from the lives of Nigerian exiles in Italy.