Female genital mutilation in Africa: Politics of criminalisation
Despite global criminalisation efforts, with over 60 countries, including more than 25 in Africa, adopting laws, Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) persists, devastating the lives of millions of women and girls and exposing the limits of current legal frameworks. In Female Genital Mutilation in Africa,...
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| Format: | Online |
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| Language: | English |
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Pretoria University Law Press (PULP)
2025
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| Online Access: | https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/160420 |
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| Summary: | Despite global criminalisation efforts, with over 60 countries, including more than 25 in Africa, adopting laws, Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) persists, devastating the lives of millions of women and girls and exposing the limits of current legal frameworks. In Female Genital Mutilation in Africa, editor Satang Nabaneh curates a timely and crucial collection, illustrating the complex history of colonial legal imposition and the evolving post-colonial resistance, while challenging dominant narratives. Through an intersectional, African feminist, and decolonial lens, this book ignites a vital cross-boundary (disciplinary, national, ethnic and religious) dialogue on the adequacy of criminal law in addressing FGM. Contributors offer theoretical, practical, and survivor perspectives, providing context-specific analyses that calls on advocates, policymakers, legislators, scholars, and students to rethink human rights and the use of criminal law, pertaining to issues of women and girls, both in Africa and globally. |
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