Female Circumcision Controversy An Anthropological Perspective

"No great theoretical insights are offered in this book, and its concluding message rests firmly and uncritically on the standard terrain of feminist development thinking. But, in its careful teasing apart of the assumptions that inform popular debate, and in its repeated returns to the lives of Ellen Gruenbaum's informants, it may perhaps serve to remind those who too readily reduce other human beings to the status of victims of culture that both understanding and projects of transformation are more complicated than they might first seem."Gruenbaum, Ellen is the author of 'Female Circumcision Controversy An Anthropological Perspective', published 2000 under ISBN 9780812217469 and ISBN 0812217462.