Stanlie James
Autor de Genital Cutting and Transnational Sisterhood: DISPUTING U.S. POLEMICS
Sobre El Autor
Obras de Stanlie James
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Otros nombres
- James, Stanlie Myrise
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- País (para mapa)
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Des Moines, Iowa, USA
- Educación
- Spelman College (BA)
School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London (MA)
University of Denver (MA, PhD) - Ocupaciones
- African American Studies Professor, Arizona State University
Miembros
Reseñas
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 2
- Miembros
- 16
- Popularidad
- #679,947
- Valoración
- 3.8
- Reseñas
- 1
- ISBNs
- 2
Especially interesting was the last chapter which showed through first hand account that the same feminist actors leading the charge against African clitoridectomy take no interest in the same procedure in our own society performed on unconsenting infants in order to enforce gender norms on the intersexed. "'Their' genital cutting is barbaric ritual; 'ours' is scientific. Theirs disfigures; ours normalizes the deviant." Because the target is not female genital cutting, but only female genital cutting by Africans, the strident paternalistic appeal by Westerners is understandably unappreciated.… (más)