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Prisoners of Ritual: An Odyssey Into Female Genital Circumcision in Africa (Haworth Women's Studies) 1st Edition

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This unique volume focuses on the psychosexual and social effects of female genital mutilation, an ancient, deeply entrenched custom saturating the larger part of Africa. Over a period of six years, Author Hanny Lightfoot-Klein trekked through outlying areas of Sudan, Kenya, and Egypt, where she lived with a number of African families. What she learned by way of in-depth personal interviews and firsthand observation has enabled her to add a previously unknown and often astonishing dimension to our knowledge of ritual practices and human sexuality. This valuable book will be extremely helpful to professionals and scholars in women's studies, social psychology, psychotherapy, psychiatry, gynecology, sexology, as well as cross-cultural and African studies. It should also interest anyone who is concerned with male circumcision in the United States.
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    0866568778
  2. ISBN-13
    978-0866568777
  3. Edition
    1st
  4. Publisher
    Routledge
  5. Publication date
    November 2, 1989
  6. Language
    English
  7. Dimensions
    6.5 x 1 x 9 inches
  8. Print length
    318 pages
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Routledge; 1st edition (November 2, 1989)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 318 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0866568778
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0866568777
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.5 x 1 x 9 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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    Dr. Ellen Cole, Professor of Psychology Emerita from Alaska Pacific University, is currently Professor of Psychology at the Sage Colleges, with campuses in Albany and Troy, NY, where she teaches in the Counseling and Community Psychology graduate program and coordinates their internship program. She is past-president of the Alaska Psychological Association and the Society for the Psychology of Women of the American Psychological Association (APA Division 35) and former chair of APA’s Committee on Women in Psychology.

    For 13 years she co-edited the journal Women &Therapy and currently serves as Book Review Editor for Psychology of Women Quarterly. At age 70 she received a Master of Arts degree in Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania, and for the past five years she has been working on several fronts to change perceptions of aging and old from one that is medically and negatively driven to one that focuses on quality of life and celebration. To that end she and Jane Giddan have a blog at 70Candles.com and a new book, 70 Candles: Women Thriving in their Eighth Decade (Taos Institute, 2015). Ellen and Dr. Mary Gergen co-edited Retiring but Not Shy: Feminist Psychologists Create Their Post-Careers (Taos Institute, 2012) and Positive Aging: What Feminist Therapists Need to Know (a special issue of the journal Women & Therapy, scheduled for publication in January, 2016). In 2010 Ellen and her husband, Dr. Douglas North, relocated from Anchorage, Alaska to Albany, New York. They are the proud parents of four adult children and ten grandchildren.

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Kitten
5.0 out of 5 stars An EYE opening book.
Reviewed in the United States on April 30, 2014
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I can honestly say that I never knew about this kind of thing until I stumbled upon this book in my search for ritualistic scarification.
I bought it because I wanted to know more about other cultures and their practices.
I was both horrified and in a small way, empowered knowing that these women undergo this treatment as a part of life, as if it were totally normal and natural. For them it may be, but I could not imagine knowing this would happen to me if I were born there.
Not judging, just an observation and the feelings it evoked.
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Bradford McCormick
5.0 out of 5 stars The truth about ethnicity
Reviewed in the United States on July 24, 2021
I read this book in 1990, probably before a lot of the #meToo'ers were born. All women (and men and others) should read this book to learn about the real dangers of social customs and sex crimes and so forth. Obviously all rapists whose crime results in the victim needing medical treatment belong in prison if not before a firing squad. But people huffing and puffing about things like New York's Governor having male hormones when they did not protect their virtue behind nunnery walls should learn about the realities of human existence on this earth. This book tells it like it is.
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