Female genital cutting: A sociological analysis

Abstract

This is a strictly sociological analysis of institutional conflict using female genital cutting as a case study. There is very little information about the practice of FGC itself or the local contexts in which it occurs. The interaction of nation-states with the international system in the face of conflict is the subject of the analysis. The conclusions are based on analysing international strategies, national policies, and data from nationally administered Demographic and Health Surveys in Egypt, Kenya, Mali, Niger, and Sudan. The sociological approach focuses on parallels between institutional behaviour at the international, national, and local level rather than specific meanings or local contexts.

Elizabeth Heger Boyle, Female Genital Cutting: Cultural Conflict in the Global Community (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002).

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Elizabeth Heger Boyle, Female Genital Cutting: Cultural Conflict in the Global Community (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002).