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BL
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| Record Number
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695866
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b518055
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| Main Entry
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Mire, Soraya
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| Title & Author
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The girl with three legs : : a memoir /\ Soraya Miré
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| Publication Statement
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Chicago :: Lawrence Hill Books,, [2011]
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, ©2011
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| Page. NO
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xiv, 386 pages, [4] leaves of plates :: portraits,; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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1569767130
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: 9781569767139
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 376-378) and index
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| Contents
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A daughter of Africa, 1960-1979 -- New beginning -- Whispering voices -- Smoke rising from her ears -- White turban man -- Grandmother's shrouding -- The girl with three legs -- The secret house and the ghost house -- The sound of the scissors -- Betrayal -- Learning to walk again -- Mysteries -- The Sheikha -- Asra's elopement and Mother's pain -- Boots marching to Ogaden -- Arousal transactions -- The Da Vinci hotel -- The overpriced vagina -- An imprisoned wife, 1979-1984 -- The limping one -- The twisted tongue -- The smoke screen -- The quelling pene -- Incapacitated state -- The kohl eyes one -- Moving away from bedlam -- Time to burst forth -- Grenoble -- The feared mutant -- Distorted body -- The black swan -- Mending the wounds -- Moving away from perdition -- The Diderot Restaurant -- The coffee shop -- The courtesan -- Squeezing the vaginal walls -- Flowers and footsteps -- White sugar -- The four breasts -- Going with the flow -- The dark hole -- Father's illness -- The crushing weight -- A nation of bards, 1984-2011 -- The Angelinos -- The ecclesiastical path -- Bold moves -- The relinquishment -- The path to fire eyes -- Bloodshed -- Tailing the dream -- Rockefeller -- Achieving the impossible -- Beating you to the punch -- Tremor and the indie pilgrimage -- Breakaway -- Going for the gold -- Father's shrouding -- Bhadrakali -- Lifework
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| Abstract
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A personal story of female genital mutilation. Mire reveals what it means to grow up in a traditional Somali family, where girls' and women's basic human rights are violated on a daily basis. She describes FGM is the ultimate child abuse, a ritual of mutilation handed down from mother to daughter and protected by the word "culture."
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Mire, Soraya
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Female circumcision-- Prevention
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Female circumcision-- Psychological aspects
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Female circumcision-- Social aspects
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Women-- Somalia, Biography
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Women-- Somalia-- Rites and ceremonies
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| Dewey Classification
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392.1/4B
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| LC Classification
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HQ1795.Z75M576 2011
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