Recommended
Readings in Anthropology and History on Female Circumcision/Female Genital
Mutilation
Ellen
Gruenbaum, The Female Circumcision Controversy. Philadelphia,
PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001.
Elizabeth
A. Sheehan, “Victorian Clitoridectomy:Isaac
Baker Brown and His Harmless Operative Procedure,” Roger N. Lancaster and
Micaela di Leonardo (eds) The
Gender Sexuality Reader:Culture,
History, Political Economy, pp. 325-334, 1997.
Lynn
M. Thomas, “Imperial Concerns and ‘Women’s Affairs’:State
Efforts to Regulate Clitoridectomy and Eradicate Abortion in Meru, Kenya,
c. 1910-1950,” Journal of African History 39: 121-45, 1998.
Lynn
M. Thomas, “Ngiatana (I will circumcise myself):The
Gender and Generational Politics of the 1956 Ban on Clitoridectomy in Meru,
Kenya,” Gender and History 3: 338-363, 1996.
Stanlie
Jones, “Shades of Othering:Reflections
on Female Circumcision/Genital
Mutilation,” Signs 23: 1031-1048, 1998.[This
one has info on male circumcision]
Elliot
Skinner, “Female Circumcision in Africa:The
Dialectics of Equality,” in Dialectics and Gender:Anthropological
Approaches, 195-210.
Brooke
Grunfest Schoepf, “AIDS, Gender, and Sexuality during Africa’s Economic
Crisis,” pp. 310-332 in Gwendolyn Mikell (ed.), African Feminism:The
Politics of Survival in Sub-Saharan Africa (Philadelphia:University
of Pennsylvania Press, 1997).