University of California Los Angeles Week 8 Genital Cutting and Transnational Sisterhood Essay
Read these articles
Week 8 (November 17)
Race, Sexuality, and Female Genital Cutting
James, Stanlie M. & Claire C. Robertson, eds. Genital Cutting and Transnational Sisterhood:
Disputing U.S. Polemics. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2002. Introduction & Chapters 1,
2 & 4.
Screening of selections from Mooladé by Ousmane Sembene, 2005
Recommended
“Prologue” in James, Stanlie M. & Claire C. Robertson, eds. Genital Cutting and Transnational
Sisterhood: Disputing U.S. Polemics. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2002.
Simone Weil Davis. 2002. “Loose Lips Sink Ships.” In Feminist Studies 28 (1), 7-35.
Nurka, Camille. 2019. Female Genital Cosmetic Surgery: Deviance, Desire, and the Pursuit of
Perfection. Palgrave Macmillan. Selections. E-Reserves
