Female genital cutting and the politics of Islamicate practices in Egypt:

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" Female genital cutting and the politics of Islamicate practices in Egypt: "
An Van Raemdonck

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1064196
Doc. No	:	LA107825
Call No	:	‭10.1163/2031356X-03001013‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	An Van Raemdonck
Title & Author	:	Female genital cutting and the politics of Islamicate practices in Egypt: [Article] : debating development and the religious/secular divide\ An Van Raemdonck
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Afrika Focus
Date	:	2017
Volume/ Issue Number	:	30/1
Page No	:	162–168
Abstract	:	My PhD dissertation examined discourses on Female Genital Cutting (FGC) in contemporacy Egypt, particularly concerning the relation between FGC and religion. FGC is practiced by both Muslims and Christians and Egypt is among the countries with the highest prevalence rates. Through ethnographic research, the study analysed the vemacularization of transnational activism as an important intervention into local cultural and social debates on gender, sexuality and family norms, in addition to understandings of Islam, Muslim-Christian relations and concepts of race, nation and progress. I argue that FGC is best characterized as an Islamicate practice. A narrow, reifying conceptualization of religion precludes lived understandings of the relation of FGC to Islam and subsequently, precludes more profound social and cultural debate on gendered practices.
Descriptor	:	critical development studies
Descriptor	:	Egypt
Descriptor	:	FGC
Descriptor	:	Islam
Descriptor	:	religion
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/2031356X-03001013‬