FGM Recommended Book List

Female Mutilation: The truth behind the horrifying global practice of female genital mutilation – Author: Hilary Burrage

goodreads rating: 3.75 (8 ratings)

The number of girls and women affected around the world is staggering. death is not an uncommon result. Female genital mutilation (FGM) is the partial or total removal of the external female genitalia for cultural rather than medical or religious reasons; its origin is unknown. practitioners believe the procedure improves a girl’s health, hygiene, chastity, fertility, and marriage prospects; the truth is that it destroys sexual pleasure, causes serious health problems and is sometimes fatal. This book covers this controversial cultural practice that takes place all over the world, including in Western countries where it is illegal. Read the heartbreaking stories of women who have been genitally mutilated, their tales of survival, and their determination to end this injustice. find out what is being done to combat this crime against women from the commitment to see the change.

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Eradicating Female Genital Mutilation: A UK Perspective – Author: Hilary Burrage

is a book on the pathways to eradicating female genital mutilation in the UK and around the world, and a detailed textbook-manual covering global and historical/political issues from a socio-economic, educational, legal and doctor.

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Among the Maasai: a Memoir – Author: Juliet Cutler

goodreads rating: 4.59 (24 ratings)

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in 1999, juliet cutler leaves the united states to teach at the first maasai girls’ school in east africa. Captivated by the stories of young Maasai determined to gain an education in the midst of a culture caught between the past and the future, she seeks to empower and support her students as they struggle to define their own destinies. Shy smiles and shy facades, her Maasai students are much stronger than they seem. for them, adolescence requires navigating a risky world of forced marriages, rape and genital mutilation, all in the midst of a culture that fights globalization. Faced with these challenges, these young women believe that education offers hope, so against all odds, they set out on their own, traveling hundreds of miles and even leaving their families, simply to go to school. twenty years of involvement with this school and its students reveal to cutler the significant impacts of education over time, as well as the challenges inherent in addressing human rights issues and extreme poverty in very different cultures. Working alongside local educators, Cutler emerges transformed by the community she encounters in Tanzania and by witnessing the life-changing impact of education on her students.

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Saving Safa: Rescuing A Little Girl from FGM – Author: Waris Dirie

waris dirie is an extraordinary woman and an important figure in the fight against female genital mutilation (fgm). waris, a model somali activist, published her first book desert flower in 1999. desert flower is the meaning of waris dirie’s name, and that first book was about her own story: waris was cut down at the age of five, sold Married at thirteen, but eventually became a model and, at the age of thirty, joined the UN as a spokesperson against MGF.

saving safa is waris new book about a girl, little safa from djibouti, who was chosen to play waris in a movie. it was a role that changed and saved her life when, a few years later, the young actress was at risk of being eliminated: the model flew to djbouti to save her. The book also details Waris Dirie’s establishment of the Desert Flower Foundation, a charity fighting to save the lives of a million girls from female genital mutilation.

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Cut Flowers – Author: Aneeta Prem

goodreads rating: 5 (only 2 reviews)

Katie and Sophia are just two ordinary girls eagerly awaiting summer vacation until their teacher, Miss Adams, gives them their summer homework: to prepare a presentation about what they did during vacation. little did they know it would be the start of a lifelong mission to protect girls around the world. The adventure begins when Katie and her family go to Africa to meet her grandmother Jojo and her cousins ​​for the first time. But behind the fun in the sun and safari trips, something isn’t quite right. Katie stumbles upon an old family secret and it’s up to her to bring it to light. What really happened to her aunt daisy de ella and why doesn’t anyone talk about her anymore? With the help of Ella’s mother, Katie finally begins to understand what happened all those years ago, but will she discover the truth in time to save herself and Ella Sweetpea’s cousin from a similar fate?

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Do They Hear You When You Cry – Author: Fauziya Kassindja

good read rating: 4.21

for fauziya kassindja, an idyllic childhood in togo, west africa, sheltered from tribal practices of polygamy and genital mutilation, ended with the sudden death of her beloved father. Forced into an arranged marriage at seventeen, Fauziya was told to prepare for kakia, the ritual also known as female genital mutilation. it is a ritual that no woman can refuse. but fauziya dared to try. this is her story – told in her own words – of fleeing africa just hours before the kakia ritual took place, of seeking asylum in america only to be locked up in american prisons, and of meeting layli miller bashir, a law student who became a friend and supporter of fauziya during her horrific sixteen months behind bars. layli enlisted the help of karen musalo, refugee law expert and interim director of the american university’s international human rights clinic. In addition to devoting his own considerable efforts to her case, Musalo assembled a team to fight with her on Fauziya’s behalf. Finally, in a landmark decision in immigration history, Fauziya Kassindja was granted asylum on June 13, 1996. Do they hear you when you cry? is the unforgettable chronicle of triumph of her.

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The War on Women – Author: Sue Lloyd Roberts

valuation of good readings 4.73

In 1973, Sue Lloyd-Roberts joined ITN as a news trainee and became one of the UK’s first female video journalists to report from the shadowy outposts of the Soviet Union. Traveling as a tourist, she also gained access to some of the world’s most impenetrable places, including China, Tibet, and Burma. During her 40-year career, she witnessed the worst atrocities inflicted on women around the world. but by observing the war against the female race firsthand, she also documented her incredible determination to fight back. The War Against Women brings to life the unthinkable and dangerous life Sue de Ella led. tells the story of orphan mary merritt who, at sixteen, instead of being released from the care of the nuns, was interned by them in a cupcake laundry and forced to work twelve hours a day, six days a week, without pay, for more than a decade. . She voices Maimouna, the woman responsible for taking on her mother’s role as a village circumciser in The Gambia, and provides a platform for 11-year-old Manemma, who was married in Jaipur at the age of six. From the gender pay gap in Britain to forced marriage in Kashmir and from rape as a weapon of war to honor killings, Sue has examined the history of mankind and takes us on a journey to analyze the state of life of women today. the most important thing is that she acts as a spokesperson for the brave; those who defy evil; those who show courage for fear they have; those who combat violence around the world; those who are fighting back.

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However Long the Night – Author: Aimee Molloy

good read rating: 4.17

Whatever the night, aimee molloy tells the unlikely and inspiring story of molly melching, an american woman whose experience as an exchange student in senegal led her to found tostan and dedicate nearly four decades of her life to girls and women From Africa This moving biography details Melching’s beginnings at Dakar University and follows her 40-year journey in Africa, where she became a social entrepreneur and one of humanity’s strongest voices for the rights of girls and women. . Inspirational and beautifully written, No matter how long the night may be: Molly Melching’s journey to help millions of African women and girls succeed is an impassioned plea for all citizens of the world. This book is published in partnership with the Skoll Foundation, dedicated to accelerating innovations from organizations like Tostan that address the world’s most pressing problems.

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Cut: One Woman’s Fight Against FGM in Britain Today – Author Hibo Wardere

good read rating: 4.57

Imagine for a moment that you’re 6 years old and you’re woken up early, showered, and then dressed in rags before being led away to a sinister-looking tent at the end of your garden. and there, you are subjected to the cruelest court, ordered by your own mother. Forced to lie on a bed, with her legs apart, Hibo Warde was forced to undergo female genital mutilation, a process so brutal that she nearly died. When she was a teenager, she moved to London in the shadow of the Somali civil war, where she quickly learned that the procedure she had undergone in her home country was not “normal” in the West. She embarked on a journey to understand FGM and its roots, as she raised her own family and dealt with the devastating consequences of FGM on her own life. Today, Ella Hibo is working in London as a campaigner for female genital mutilation, helping girls whose families plan to take them abroad for the procedure. she has promised to dedicate herself to the campaign against female genital mutilation. Eloquent and bitingly honest, these are hibo’s memoirs that promise not only to tell her remarkable story, but also to shed light on a medieval practice taking place in the 21st century, right on our doorstep. fgm in the uk has been undocumented for too long and now that is about to change. devastating, empowering and informative, this book brings to life a clash of cultures at the heart of contemporary society and shows how female genital mutilation is a very British problem.

possessing the secret of joy – author: alice walker

good read rating: 4.08

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Owning the Secret of Joy is the story of Tashi, an African tribal woman who lives much of her adult life in North America. when she was young, a mistaken loyalty to the customs of her people led her to voluntarily submit to the knife of the tsunga and be genitally mutilated (pharaonic circumcised). Severely traumatized by this experience, she spends the rest of her life battling insanity, desperately trying through psychotherapy; she is treated by disciples of freud and c.g. Jung, and even by Jung himself, to regain the ability to recognize her own reality and feel from her. it is only with the help of the most unlikely ally she can imagine that she begins to study the mythological “reasons” concocted by her ancient ancestors for what they did to her and millions of other women and girls over thousands of years. as her understanding grows, so does her ability to face her overwhelming pain. Beneath this pain is her burning anger. her anger drives her to act. her action brings both feeling (life, the ability to exist consciously in the moment) and death, to which she discovers that she has completely lost her fear.