A GJ Frontiers article.

Abstract

The issue of Female Circumcision is usually discussed in the framework of extreme human rights violations victimizing non western women. This paper questions this approach by broadly comparing Female Circumcision with similar "cutting" practices routinely performed in Western societies. An integrative approach to comparative law is suggested in order to understand phenomena in context and to avoid ethnocentrism.

Originally published in Global Jurist Frontiers.

Recommended Citation

Grande, Elisabetta (2004) "Hegemonic Human Rights and African Resistance: Female Circumcision in a Broader Comparative Perspective," Global Jurist Frontiers: Vol. 4 : Iss. 2, Article 3.
Available at: http://www.bepress.com/gj/frontiers/vol4/iss2/art3