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Author: Kim Manresa Publisher: Spinifex Press ISBN: 9781875559749 Category : Health & Fitness Languages : en Pages : 52
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This photostory gives an account of the day Kadi undergoes the tradition of female circumcision. It follows her through the day as she goes about her daily chores before she is taken by the circumciser.
Author: Kim Manresa Publisher: Spinifex Press ISBN: 9781875559749 Category : Health & Fitness Languages : en Pages : 52
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This photostory gives an account of the day Kadi undergoes the tradition of female circumcision. It follows her through the day as she goes about her daily chores before she is taken by the circumciser.
Author: Susan Perry Publisher: Zed Books ISBN: 9781856498470 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 308
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Focusing on seven crucial debates in the field of gender and development, this compilation shows why development policy must respond to cultural differences and illustrates the rewards of doing so.
Author: Obioma Nnaemeka Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA ISBN: 0313068747 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 297
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Heated debates about and insurgencies against female circumcision are symptoms of a disease emanating from a mindset that produced hierarchies of humans, conquered colonies, and built empires. The loss of colonies and empires does not in any way mitigate the ideological underpinnings of empire-building and the knowledge construction that subtends it. The mindset finds its articulation at points of coalescence. Female circumcision provided a point of coalescence and impetus for this articulation. Insisting that the hierarchy on which the imperialist project rests is not bipolar but multi-layered and more complex, the contributions in this volume demonstrate how imperialist discourses complicate issues of gender, race, and history. Nnaemeka gives voice to the silenced and marginalized, and creates space for them to participate in knowledge construction and theory making. The authors in this volume trace the travels of imperial and colonial discourses from antecedents in anthropology, travel writings, and missionary discourse, to modern configurations in films, literature, and popular culture. The contributors interrogate foreign, or Western, modus operandi and interventions in the so-called Third World and show how the resistance they generate can impede development work and undermine the true collaboration and partnership necessary to promote a transnational feminist agenda. With great clarity and in simple, accessible language, the contributors present complex ideas and arguments which hold significant implications for transnational feminism and development.
Author: Evelyne Accad Publisher: Spinifex Press ISBN: 9781876756123 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 548
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This is a rare multicultural perspective on disease, particularly cancer, in which the author takes on a journey through the medical establishments, cultural taboos, gender-tagged attitudes and personal stories of different civilisations. It could also be defined as a quest on how human logic relates to illness. The writing itself blends the diary, personal letters, poems and songs with excerpts from some of the foremost authorities in cancer research, producing an effect upon the reader akin to that which she experienced herself, as she moved back and forth between the emotional and physical shock of the cancer experience and the objective scientific data she uncovered. She begins to find cancer everywhere in her physical environment: friends, relatives and people she has never met -- some die. She finds a depth of friendship and support that she had never expected including that of her close companion. While writing her book she sent sections of it to friends, who commented on the text. These honest responses to her story add a further dimension. The structure and content of the book are informed by her deep commitment to women, men, ecology and peace issues. As part of the journey she reads many books on the environment and cancer. Although she lives in the USA and France, the book takes the reader on physical journeys to many other cities including Paris, Tunis and Beirut.
Author: Laurene Kelly Publisher: Spinifex Press ISBN: 9781875559787 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 136
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Annotation. Fourteen-year-old Julie starts crying on Monday when things go badly at school. Although cheered up by her dog, Jessie, things are not much better at home. And they go from bad to worse. On the day Julie and her brother, Toby decide to join Ruby at the local waterhole, there is an accident. But something more is wrong. Her father is in hospital and Jessie is not there to greet her.
Author: Anne Orford Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1139460390 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 401
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Institutional and political developments since the end of the Cold War have led to a revival of public interest in, and anxiety about, international law. Liberal international law is appealed to as offering a means of constraining power and as representing universal values. This book brings together scholars who draw on jurisprudence, philosophy, legal history and political theory to analyse the stakes of this turn towards international law. Contributors explore the history of relations between international law and those it defines as other - other traditions, other logics, other forces, and other groups. They explore the archive of international law as a record of attempts by scholars, bureaucrats, decision-makers and legal professionals to think about what happens to law at the limits of modern political organisation. The result is a rich array of responses to the question of what it means to speak and write about international law in our time.
Author: Juliet Rogers Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134097239 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 180
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Scenes of violence and incisions into the flesh inform the demand for law. The scene of little girls being held down in practices of female circumcision has been a defining and definitive image that demands the attention of human rights, and the intervention of law. But the investment in protecting women and little girls from such a cut is not all that it seems. Law's Cut on the Body of Human Rights: Female Circumcision, Torture and Sacred Flesh considers how such images come to inform law and the investment of advocates of law in an imagination of this scene. Drawing on psychoanalytic and postcolonial theory, and accompanying ideas in political theology, Juliet Rogers examines the language, imagery and excitement that accompanies recent initiatives to legislate against what is called 'female genital mutilation'. The author compliments this examination with a consideration of the scene of torture exposed in images from Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay. Rogers argues that the modes of fascination and excitement that accompany scenes of torture and female circumcision betray the fantasy of a political condition against which the subject of liberal law is imagined; this is subjectivity in a state of non-mutilation, non-prohibition or, in a psychoanalytic idiom, non-castration. To support the fantasy of this subject, the mutilated subject, the authors suggests, is rendered as flesh cut from the democratic nation state, deserving of only selective human rights, or none at all.
Author: Shirley A. Fedorak Publisher: University of Toronto Press ISBN: 1442605952 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 521
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Anthropology Matters places the study of anthropology concretely in the world by which it is surrounded. It takes a question-based approach to introducing important anthropological concepts by embedding those concepts in contemporary global issues that will interest students. The second edition of this popular text has been updated throughout and includes four new chapters on language revitalization, social media and social revolutions, human migration, and the role of NGOs in international development practice. Students can now engage with the most up-to-date issues while learning to think anthropologically.
Author: Susan Hawthorne Publisher: Spinifex Press ISBN: 9781876756246 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 484
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Synthesising issues that are at the forefront of local and global politics and social movements of the twenty-first century, this book presents a powerful critique of global western culture, challenging many of its central assumptions and institutions. Hawthorne's detailed analysis is both perceptive and wide-ranging. She unpicks the structures of power and knowledge, law and international trade rules, as well probing into issues that intimately affect us in our daily lives, such as our perception of land, how food is produced and the changing shape of work. The book concludes with a compelling vision for a world inspired by biodiversity, and organised around the principle of diversity.
Author: Kim Manresa
Author: Kim Manresa
Author: Susan Perry
Author: Obioma Nnaemeka
Author: Evelyne Accad
Author: Laurene Kelly
Author: Anne Orford
Author: Juliet Rogers
Author: Shirley A. Fedorak
Author: Lee Quinby
Author: Susan Hawthorne