References
- Ahmadu , F.S. and Shweder , R.A. 2009 . Disputing the myth of the sexual dysfunction of circumcised women . Anthropology today , 25 ( 6 ) : 14 – 19 .
- Barvosa-Carter , E. 2005 . “ Strange tempest: agency, poststructuralism, and the shape of feminist politics to come ” . In Butler matters: Judith Butler's impact on feminist and queer studies , Edited by: Sönser Breen , M. and Blumenfeld , W.J. 175 – 190 . Aldershot : Ashgate .
- Boddy , J. 2007 . “ Gender crusades: the female circumcision controversy in cultural perspective ” . In Transcultural bodies: female genital cutting in global context , Edited by: Hernlund , Y. and Shell-Duncan , B. 46 – 66 . New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press .
- Butler , J. 1995 . “ Contingent foundations ” . In Feminist contentions: a philosophical exchange , Edited by: Benhabib , S. 35 – 57 . London : Routledge .
- Butler , J. 1997 . Excitable speech: a politics of the performative , London : Routledge .
- James , S.M. and Robertson , C.C. 2002 . Genital cutting and transnational sisterhood: disputing US polemics , Champaign, IL : University of Illinois Press .
- Kirby , V. 2005 . “ When all that is solid melts into language ” . In Butler matters: Judith Butler's impact on feminist and queer studies , Edited by: Sönser Breen , M. and Blumenfeld , W.J. 41 – 56 . Aldershot : Ashgate .
- Kristof , N. and Wudunn , S. 2010 . Half the sky: how to change the world , London : Virago Press .
- Lawler , S. 2004 . “ Rules of engagement: habitus, power and resistance ” . In Feminism after Bourdieu , Edited by: Adkins , L. and Skeggs , B. 110 – 128 . Oxford : Blackwell .
- Lightfoot-Klein , H. 1989 . The sexual experience and marital adjustment of genitally circumcised and infibulated females in the Sudan . Journal of sex research , 26 ( 3 ) : 375 – 392 .
- Lindholm , M. 2004 . “ Cut ” . In Nebula Awards showcase 2004 , Edited by: McIntyre , V.N. 184 – 194 . New York : ROC .
- Lovell , T. 2003 . Resisting with authority: historical specificity, agency and the performative self . Theory, culture and society , 20 ( 1 ) : 1 – 17 .
- McNay , L. 1999 . “ Subject, psyche and agency: the work of Judith Butler ” . In Performativity and belonging , Edited by: Bell , V. 175 – 194 . London : Sage .
- Nelson , L. 1999 . Bodies (and spaces) do matter: the limits of performativity . Gender, place and culture , 6 ( 4 ) : 331 – 354 .
- Shell-Duncan , B. 2008 . From health to human rights: female genital cutting and the politics of intervention . American anthropologist , 110 ( 2 ) : 225 – 236 .
- World Health Organisation (WHO), 2010. Female genital mutilation: fact sheet [online]. Available from: http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs241/en/ [Accessed 11 September 2010]