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Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) -

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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 7 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book The Girls in the Wild Fig Tree by Nice Leng
    The Girls in the Wild Fig Tree - by Nice Leng'ete

    £10.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781472275844 | ISBN 10: 1472275845

    An inspirational story of one girl who changed the minds of her elders, reformed traditions from the inside, and is creating a better future for girls and women throughout Africa.  Born in a remote village in Kenya, Nice Leng'ete saw the young ... more

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  • Cover image of book Beyond the Dance: Voices of Women on Female Genital Mutilation by Violet Barungi & Hilda Twongyeirwe
    Beyond the Dance: Voices of Women on Female Genital Mutilation - by Violet Barungi & Hilda Twongyeirwe

    £29.00   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9789970700196 | ISBN 10: 9970700197

    Female genital mutilation is the excruciating and damaging experience that a lot of women in many cultures across Africa and in many other parts of the world suffer. Even when the women find themselves, for one reason or another, relocated in what sh ... more

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  • Cover image of book Genital Cutting and Transnational Sisterhood: Disputing U.S. Polemics by Stanlie M James & Claire C Robertson
    Genital Cutting and Transnational Sisterhood: Disputing U.S. Polemics - by Stanlie M James & Claire C Robertson

    £17.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780252072734 | ISBN 10: 0252072731

    Genital Cutting and Transnational Sisterhood is a much-needed response to the ethnocentric and arrogant Western perceptions surrounding female genital cutting (FGC), often referred to as either female genital mutilation or female circumcision, but wh ... more

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  • Cover image of book Female Genital Mutilation in Africa by Daniel Njoroge Karanja
    Female Genital Mutilation in Africa - by Daniel Njoroge Karanja

    £12.50   paperback   (2003) - ISBN 13: 9781591605614 | ISBN 10: 159160561x

    Firmly anti-fgm, but it is written by a Chrstian Kenyan pastor and hence is very biblical. ... more

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  • Cover image of book Aman: The Story of a Somali Girl by Aman et al
    Aman: The Story of a Somali Girl - by Aman et al

    £9.99   paperback   (1995) - ISBN 13: 9780747520221 | ISBN 10: 0747520224

    Aman is the intimate first-person account of a young woman's coming-of-age in Somalia. The daughter of tribal leaders, Aman recounts her dramatic life with stark simplicity and winning candour: an innocent childhood romance with a white boy that lead ... more

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  • Cover image of book Possessing the Secret of Joy by Alice Walker
    Possessing the Secret of Joy - by Alice Walker

    £9.99   paperback   (1993) - ISBN 13: 9780099224112 | ISBN 10: 0099224119

    When Alice Walker finshed writing The Color Purple she realised that she needed to tell the story of Tashi, a minor character, who had "left Africa but had taken her wound with her to America".  This is Tashi's story, told in her words and the v ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Circumcision of Women; A Strategy for Eradication by Olayinka Koso-Thomas
    The Circumcision of Women; A Strategy for Eradication - by Olayinka Koso-Thomas

    £26.99   paperback   (1992) - ISBN 13: 9780862327019 | ISBN 10: 0862327016

    Dr Koso-Thomas shows that female circumcision is not confined to the Horn of Africa, or the Muslim areas of the continent. Her study of the practice in Sierra Leone demonstrates its important role in the traditional initiation of females into both w ... more

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