CONTENTS

Abbreviations and Acronyms

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Illustrations

Contributors

INTRODUCTION – Lotte Hughes, Mark Lamont, Katy Newell-Jones, Damaris Parsitau

CONTEXT AND WIDER DISCOURSES

1.FGM/C in International Agenda(s): An Historical Overview – Marta Patrício

2.Challenging the Passe-Partout Words of the FGM/C Feminist Discourse as ‘Harmful Traditional Practices’: A Critical Anthropological Analysis of Dislocations – Michela Fusaschi

3.Mothers, Boys’ Circumcisions, and a New Politics of Bodily Integrity in Kenya – Mark Lamont

4.Association between Religion and FGM/C in the African Context – Shannon Thomson and Sean Callaghan

LESSONS FROM THE GRASSROOTS

5.The Role of Participatory Community-Based Research in FGM/C Programming in Somaliland – Amal Ahmed and Katy Newell-Jones

6.Tackling FGM/C in Rural Communities in Guinea-Conakry: A Case Report from Kankan – Els Leye, Bintou Mady Kaba, Abdoulaye Kaba, Jessica Tatout and Anneke Vercoutere

7.Assessing Strategies for FGM/C Elimination in Sudan: A Proposed Model for Promoting Behaviour Change – Nada Alassad

FGM/C IN THE DIASPORA

8.Responding to FGM/C in the UK African Diaspora: Prioritising Criminalisation Over Care – Magda Mogilnicka, Natasha Carver, Saffron Karlsen, Christina Pantazis, and Hannelore Van Bavel

9.On Clitoral Restoration in Survivors’ Words – Tobe Levin Freifrau von Gleichen

10.Contested Boundaries: Debates on the Differential Treatment of Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting and Female Genital Cosmetic Procedures in The Netherlands, Kenya, and Egypt – Hannelore Van Bavel, Nina Eekert and Samuel Kimani

THE LAW

11.FGM/C is a Crime: An Analysis of the Adoption, Implementation, and Efficacy of Legislation in Addressing FGM/C in Africa – Kirigo Njenga

12.Why has FGM/C Refused to Die in Kenya? – Tatu Kamau

ALTERNATIVE RITUALS

13.Strengths and Weaknesses of the Community-Led Alternative Rites of Passage Approach (CLARP) in Kajiado, Kenya – Hilke Conradi, David Kawai, Bernard Mbogo, Samuel Muhula and Eefje Smet.

14.What’s Culture Got to do With It? Some Problems with the Uses of Culture in Alternative Rites of Passage – Lotte Hughes

AFTERWORD: Listen, Discuss, and Pitch a Large Tent – Ellen Gruenbaum

Bibliography

Appendix – Critical Thinking Questions for Individual and/or Group Study

Index

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