File spoon-archives/postcolonial.archive/postcolonial_1998/postcolonial.9812, message 16


Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1998 21:04:48 -0500 (EST)
From: Joseph Flanagan III <flanagan-AT-odin.english.udel.edu>
Subject: Re: FGM - beyond victimage - Walker's


Joe, I suspect that the issue will be difficult to discuss.  However, I
suggest that you take a look at Sandra D. Lane and Robert A Rubinstine's
"Judging the Other: Responding to Traditional Female Genital Surgeries."
It's found in the Hastings Center Report, May-June 1996 v26 n3 (I located
it by way of Expanded Academic ASAP under Clitoridectomy: Moral and
ethical aspects). It might be beyond your students, but you may be able to
read it yourself and translate it for them. You may be able to use it to
convince them that, in the words of the abstract, "coming to moral
judgement is not the end of the story: we must also decide what to do
about our judgements." Joe Flanagan




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