Egyptian Activism against Female Genital Cutting as Catachrestic Claiming

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" Egyptian Activism against Female Genital Cutting as Catachrestic Claiming "
An Van Raemdonck

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1081129
Doc. No	:	LA124758
Call No	:	‭10.1163/18785417-00302005‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	An Van Raemdonck
Title & Author	:	Egyptian Activism against Female Genital Cutting as Catachrestic Claiming [Article]\ An Van Raemdonck
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Religion and Gender
Date	:	2013
Volume/ Issue Number	:	3/2
Page No	:	222–239
Abstract	:	This paper deals with questions of the politics of location in knowledge andnorm production within the context of Egyptian feminist activism for abandoningfemale genital cutting practices. It seeks to determine underlying schemesof international campaigning discourse and analyzes how these predicate andcomplicate Egyptian postcolonial activism. It draws on a broad literature studyin addition to fieldwork in Cairo consisting of in-depth interviews with activistsand policy makers. My focus is on the national Task Force against FGMfrom 1994 until 1999 and its subsequent cooptation by the National Council ofChildhood and Motherhood. I argue through the concept of catachresis thatlocation matters in setting the terms of anti-FGC discourse and its relation toreligion. This paper deals with questions of the politics of location in knowledge andnorm production within the context of Egyptian feminist activism for abandoningfemale genital cutting practices. It seeks to determine underlying schemesof international campaigning discourse and analyzes how these predicate andcomplicate Egyptian postcolonial activism. It draws on a broad literature studyin addition to fieldwork in Cairo consisting of in-depth interviews with activistsand policy makers. My focus is on the national Task Force against FGMfrom 1994 until 1999 and its subsequent cooptation by the National Council ofChildhood and Motherhood. I argue through the concept of catachresis thatlocation matters in setting the terms of anti-FGC discourse and its relation toreligion.
Descriptor	:	Egypt
Descriptor	:	female genital cutting
Descriptor	:	feminism
Descriptor	:	politics of knowledge
Descriptor	:	Postcolonial theory
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/18785417-00302005‬