Cut : one woman's fight against FGM in Britain today / Hibo Wardere.
Publisher: London ; New York : Simon & Schuster, 2016Description: ix, 256 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781471153983 (paperback); 1471153983 (paperback)Subject(s): Wardere, Hibo | Female circumcision | Female circumcision -- Great Britain | Female circumcision -- Social aspects | Female circumcision -- Prevention | Women -- Somalia -- Biography | Women -- Great Britain -- BiographyDDC classification: 392.1 LOC classification: GN484 | .W37 2016Summary: Imagine for a moment that you are 6-years-old and you are woken in the early hours, bathed and then dressed in rags before being led down to an ominous looking tent at the end of your garden. And there, you are subjected to the cruellest cut, ordered by your own mother. Forced down on a bed, her legs held apart, Hibo Warderewas made to undergo female genital cutting, a process so brutal, she nearly died. As a teenager she moved to London in the shadow of the Somalian Civil War where she quickly learnt 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, whilst raising her own family and dealing with the devastating consequences of the cutting in her own life. Today Hibo finds herself working in London as an FGM campaigner, helping young girls whose families plan to take them abroad for the procedure. She has vowed to devote herself to the campaign against FGM. Eloquent and searingly honest, this is Hibo's memoir which promises not only to tell her remarkable story but also to shed light on a medieval practice that's being carried out in the 21st century, right on our doorstep. FGM in the UK has gone undocumented for too long and now that's going 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.-- Source other than the Library of Congress.| Item type | Current library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reservations |
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| GN418. C58 Clothing as material culture | GN482. W55 2005 Hide and seek : | GN484. B5 2016 Eradicating female genital mutilation : | GN484. W37 2016 Cut : | GN484.3 T39 1996 The prehistory of sex : | GN492. P66 1991 The Politics of culture / | GN493.3 .N67 2019 The normative animal? : |
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Imagine for a moment that you are 6-years-old and you are woken in the early hours, bathed and then dressed in rags before being led down to an ominous looking tent at the end of your garden. And there, you are subjected to the cruellest cut, ordered by your own mother. Forced down on a bed, her legs held apart, Hibo Warderewas made to undergo female genital cutting, a process so brutal, she nearly died. As a teenager she moved to London in the shadow of the Somalian Civil War where she quickly learnt 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, whilst raising her own family and dealing with the devastating consequences of the cutting in her own life. Today Hibo finds herself working in London as an FGM campaigner, helping young girls whose families plan to take them abroad for the procedure. She has vowed to devote herself to the campaign against FGM. Eloquent and searingly honest, this is Hibo's memoir which promises not only to tell her remarkable story but also to shed light on a medieval practice that's being carried out in the 21st century, right on our doorstep. FGM in the UK has gone undocumented for too long and now that's going 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.-- Source other than the Library of Congress.