In her best-selling 1992 novel, Possessing the Secret of Joy, Alice Walker opened a painful door: she brought the issue of female genital mutilation, a practice that affects one hundred million of the world's women, to the attention of the reading public. For many readers, this …
The Perfect Vagina highlights the complexities involved with Female Genital Cosmetic Surgery, its role in Western beauty culture, and the creation and control of body image in countries where self-care is valorized and medicine is increasingly harnessed for enhancement as well a…
Searing memoir of the effect of female genital mutilation (FGM) on the author's life while growing up in a Somalia on the verge of civil war. A young Somali female, Fadumo Korn, offers a first-hand account of female genital mutilation (FGM) at age seven. She grows up to become …
Searing memoir of the effect of female genital mutilation (FGM) on the author's life while growing up in a Somalia on the verge of civil war. A young Somali female, Fadumo Korn, offers a first-hand account of female genital mutilation (FGM) at age seven. She grows up to become …
