Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 13:33:04 -0600
From: Ken MacDonald <kenneth-macdonald-AT-uiowa.edu>
Subject: Re: female circumcision


Joe,

You might want to get in touch with Janice Boddy in Anthropology at the
University of Toronto.  She has done a bit of work re: FGM and
representation, but I don't think that she subscribes to this list.  If
memory serves her e-mail is boddy-AT-scar.utoronto.ca

Ken

At 09:37 AM 11/17/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi Mousumi, Thanks for your response. I've presented a conference paper on
>the subject, but I've had to put it on hold for a while to finish my
>dissertation-- so I'm still need to do extended research that I hope
>will lead to an article.  The conference paper dealt with the 20/20
>episode on Dirlie (Summer 1997), the Kasinga political asylum decision,
>and the prosecution of the Coulibaly family in France in the early 1990s.
>Dirlie has since become a spokeswoman on the issue for the UN and Kasinga
>has written an autobiography.I've seen profiles and book reviews on the
>two, but haven't compiled a bibliography. I've also been told about a Law
>and Order episode, but do not have any precise information about it. If
>anyone else knows of any recent examples concerning the representation of
>FGM in the U.S. and Europe media, I too would be interested in citations.
>Joe Flanagan
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