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InterrogatIng Harmful Cultural PraCtICes This page has been left blank intentionally Interrogating Harmful Cultural Practices gender, Culture and Coercion edited By CHIa longman Ghent University, Belgium and tamsIn Bradley University of Portsmouth, UK © Chia longman and tamsin Bradley 2015 all rights reserved. no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher. Chia longman and tamsin Bradley have asserted their rights under the Copyright, designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the editors of this work. Published by ashgate Publishing limited ashgate Publishing Company Wey Court east 110 Cherry street union road suite 3-1 farnham Burlington, Vt 05401-3818 surrey, gu9 7Pt usa england www.ashgate.com British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows: Interrogating harmful cultural practices : gender, culture and coercion / [edited] by Chia longman and tamsin Bradley. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-4724-2888-2 (hardback) -- ISBN 978-1-4724-2889-9 (ebook) -- ISBN 978- 1-4724-2890-5 (epub) 1. Abused women--Developing countries.. 2. Sex discrimination against women--developing countries. 3. Women--developing countries--social condi- tions. 4. Women’s rights--developing countries. I. longman, Chia, editor. II. Bradley, tamsin. HV6626.23.d44I58 2015 362.82’92--dc23 2015002215 ISBN: 9781472428882 (hbk) ISBN: 9781472428899 (ebk – PDF) ISBN: 9781472428905 (ebk – ePUB) Printed in the united Kingdom by Henry ling limited, at the dorset Press, dorchester, dt1 1Hd Contents List of Figures vii Notes on Contributors ix Acknowledgements xiii Introduction to “Harmful Cultural Practices” 1 Chia Longman and Tamsin Bradley Part 1 theorizing harmful Cultural PraCtiCes 1 Interrogating the Concept of “Harmful Cultural Practices” 11 Chia Longman and Tamsin Bradley 2 Harmful Cultural Practices: Towards a Research Frame 31 Tamsin Bradley and Chia Longman Part 2 PoliCy, legal DeveloPments anD PolitiCal DisCourse 3 Harmful Cultural Practices and Minority Women in Europe: From Headscarf Bans to Forced Marriages and Honour Related Violence 51 Chia Longman and Gily Coene 4 “Narratives of Blame” Surrounding HIV and AIDS Eradication Policies and Sexual Cultural Practices in Malawi 67 Samantha Page 5 Finding a Seat on the Bus: Is the Practice of Sex Segregation among Ultra Orthodox Groups in Israel a Harmful Traditional Practice under CEDAW? 81 Lisa Fishbayn Joffe Part 3 from fgm to CosmetiC genital surgery 6 Transcending Female Circumcision: A Call for Collective Unmasking 99 J. Wanjiku Khamasi vi Interrogating Harmful Cultural Practices 7 Challenging Mind-Sets: The Diverse Voices of African Women 111 Aisha Omar 8 “The Clitoris is in the Head!” Female Circumcision and the Making of a Harmful Cultural Practice in Egypt 121 Maria Malmström and An Van Raemdonck 9 Vaginal Practices across Cultures: Expressions of Gender Inequalities? 139 Emilomo Ogbe and Els Leye Part 4 globalisation anD emerging harmful Cultural PraCtiCes 10 Dowry, Activism and Globalisation 153 Tamsin Bradley 11 Lip-Plates, “Harm” Debates, and the Cultural Rights of Mursi (Mun) Women 169 Shauna LaTosky 12 Epilogue: Harm and Well-Being: Cultural Practices and Harmful Global Practices 193 Ellen Gruenbaum Index 207 List of Figures 2.1 The attitude continuum 36 4.1 Analytical framework: Evidence with regard to HIV/AIDS in Malawi 70 10.1 Diagram outlining the dimensions of Dowry 157 11.1 Ngonta Biochaga 176 11.2 A Mursi girl covers her pierced lip 179 11.3 Preparing lomai into a white paste 180 11.4 Bamille Siggiakoro 185 11.5 Girrai Dorowa 186 This page has been left blank intentionally Notes on Contributors Tamsin Bradley is Reader in International Development Studies, University of Portsmouth. She currently works on gender-based violence, specifically on media reporting of rape in India and projects exploring the prevalence and impact of cultural practices on women’s lives, specifically FGM and Dowry. She has conducted research exploring the interfaces between gender, religion and development in India, Pakistan and also in Rwanda and Sierra Leone. She has published a number of books and articles most recently a volume documenting the life stories of Black Minority Ethnic women in the UK Women, Violence and Tradition: Taking FGM and other practices to a Secular State. (2011, London: Zed Press). Also the monographs; Gender and Religion in Developing Societies: Faith-based Organisations and Feminism in India. (2010 London: IB Tauris) and Challenging the NGOs: Religion, Western Discourses and Indian Women. London: I.B. Tauris, (2006 paper-back published in 2011). Gily Coene is Chair in Humanist Studies and Assistant Professor in the Philosophy and Ethics Department at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Brussels Free University) and co-founder of the Flemish Inter university Master’s Degree in Gender and Diversity. Her current teaching assignments include Feminist Thought, Gender Studies, Philosophy and Ethics of Sex, Ethics and Humanism and Humanist Studies. She is also appointed as Director of Rhea, a Centre of Expertise on Gender, Diversity and Intersectionality at Brussels Free University. Over the years, she has published widely on normative issues related to gender and ethnic/cultural diversity, secularism and reproductive health and has conducted and supervises different research and PhD projects, for instance on honour-related violence, cultural accommodation practices, gender and ethnicity in politics, family planning and breast-feeding practices. Ellen Gruenbaum is Professor and Head of the Department of Anthropology at Purdue University, USA. She is a cultural medical anthropologist whose ethnographic research focuses on women’s health issues, gender, religious practices, and development in Africa and the Middle East, including research in Sudan and Sierra Leone on female genital cutting and the social movements against “harmful traditional practices.” She has served as a consultant to UNICEF and CARE and contributed research on female genital cutting in Sudan and Sierra Leone. Gruenbaum is the author of The Female Circumcision Controversy: An Anthropological Perspective (University of Pennsylvania Press) and numerous articles and book chapters. Her current research is on the generation of change and activism against FGC practices.
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