Author: BOYLE, Elizabeth, Heger.
Title: Female Genital Cutting: Cultural Conflict in the Global Community.
Description: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. Hardcover. Ex Library, otherwise good (no markings to clean text). No dj. In this study, "...sociologist Elizabeth Boyle examines this controversial practice of female genital cutting from the perspectives of the international system, governments, and individuals. Grounded in the sociological theory of neoinstitutionalism, the book describes how the choices made by governments and individual women are influenced by conflicting principles of individual human rights and sovereign autonomy." Notes, References & Index. 188pp. ISBN 9780801870637.

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