This PhD research examined contemporary perceptions of Female Genital Cutting (FGC) through the lens of competing authoritative discourses. It maintained a particular focus on conceptualizations of the relation between FGC and religion, and particularly Islam. The analysis showed dominant, authoritative discourses in the socio-cultural fields of development work, political Islam, institutionalized Islam (al-Azhar), and Muslim-Christian relations.

People

Supervisor(s)

Chia Longman

Department of Languages and Cultures

Phd Student(s)

An Van Raemdonck

Department of Languages and Cultures

Publications

'The clitoris is in the head!' Female circumcision and the making of a harmful cultural practice in Egypt(2015)
- Maria Malmström
- An Van Raemdonck
'Ze wilden van de feministen af!' Ongehoorde stemmen in de strijd tegen meisjesbesnijdenis in Egypte(2015)
- An Van Raemdonck
Challenging global gender politics : Egypt's Islamist experience(2015)
- An Van Raemdonck
Een kritisch historische blik op campagnes tegen vrouwenbesnijdenis en het recht op interventie(2013)
- An Van Raemdonck
Egyptian activism against female genital cutting as catachrestic claiming(2013)
- An Van Raemdonck
Female genital cutting and the politics of Islamicate practices in Egypt : debating development and the religious/secular divide(2016)
- An Van Raemdonck
Gender and Islam in Africa: Rights, sexuality and law. By Margot Badran (ed.)(2015)
- An Van Raemdonck
Paradoxes of awareness raising in development : gender and sexual morality in anti-FGC campaigning in Egypt(2019)
- An Van Raemdonck
The traps of international scripts : making a case for a critical anthropology of gender and sexuality in development(2018)
- Rahil Roodsaz
- An Van Raemdonck