Law's Cut on the Body of Human Rights: Female Circumcision, Torture and Scared Flesh

by Juliet Rogers

Book Overview

In Australia, the US, England, Scotland, Italy, France and in Egypt there have been repetitive calls to legislate against the practices of female circumcision described as female genital mutilation. But in western countries where anti-female genital mutilation legislation has been passed there has been little or no consultation with the communities in which the practices occur: documents are published only in English, and community responses are ignored...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415841143
• ISBN13: 9780415841146
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"