Jinnah, Z. and Lowe, L. (2015) Circumcising circumcision: renegotiating beliefs and practices among Somali women in Johannesburg and Nairobi. Medical Anthropology, 34(4), pp. 371-388. (doi: 10.1080/01459740.2015.1045140) (PMID:26076054)
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Abstract
Female circumcision among Somalis is a deeply personal and subjective practice, framed within traditional norms and cultural practices, but negotiated within contemporary realities to produce a set of processes and practices that are nuanced, differentiated, and undergoing change. Based on ethnographic research among Somali women in Johannesburg and Nairobi, we argue that the context of forced migration provides women with opportunities to renegotiate and reinvent what female circumcision means to them. The complex, subjective, and diverse perceptions and experiences of circumcision as embedded processes, within the context of migration, we argue has been overlooked in the literature, which has tended to be framed within a normative discourse concerned with the medical effects of the practice, or in anthropological studies, counter to the normative discourse based on personal narratives.
| Item Type: | Articles |
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| Additional Information: | Lowe’s research in Kenya was supported by the Economic and Social Research Council [grantnumber ES/H018913/1], and underwent a full ethical review by the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh. Jinnah’s research in Johannesburg was funded by a grantfrom the National Research Foundation, South Africa, and was approved by the Ethics Committeeof the University of KwaZulu Natal. |
| Keywords: | Female circumcision, female genital modification/mutilation, Johannesburg, Nairobi, Somali women. |
| Status: | Published |
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | Lowe, Dr Lucy |
| Authors: | Jinnah, Z., and Lowe, L. |
| Subjects: | G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GN Anthropology H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman |
| College/School: | College of Medical Veterinary and Life Sciences > School of Health & Wellbeing > Social Scientists working in Health and Wellbeing |
| Journal Name: | Medical Anthropology |
| Publisher: | Taylor and Francis |
| ISSN: | 0145-9740 |
| ISSN (Online): | 1545-5882 |
| Published Online: | 15 June 2015 |
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