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'Had this been your face, would you leave it as it is?': Female circumcision among the Nubians of Egypt
Female circumcision : multicultural perspectives • Philadelphia • Published In 2006 • Pages: 27-46
By: El Guindi, Fadwa.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This study challenges unidimensional arguments that frame female circumcision in relation to "patriarchy" and other forms of male domination of women, proposing instead that in the context of rural Nubia the practice constitutes an important tradition that shapes the trajectory of women’s lives as they transition from childhood to womanhood. Nubian women interviewed for the study claimed that the main objective of female circumcision is to enhance beauty and sexual appeal by tightening the genitalia. To this effect, the author proposes that the practice is analogous to breast implants and other sexualized body alterations some women choose to undergo in contemporary Western societies.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Comparative evidence
- Body alterations
- Gender status
- Sexuality
- Sexual stimulation
- Sexual intercourse
- Sex training
- Gender roles and issues
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Nubians
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Northern Africa
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Anthropologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Teferi Abate Adem ; 2020
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1962-1963
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1962-1963
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- northern Aswan Governate, Egypt
- NotesAdditional notes
- Fadwa El Guindi
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 2005042362
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Female circumcision--Africa