Egyptian Activism against Female Genital Cutting as Catachrestic Claiming

This paper deals with questions of the politics of location in knowledge andnorm production within the context of Egyptian feminist activism for abandoningfemale genital cutting practices. It seeks to determine underlying schemesof international campaigning discourse and analyzes how these predicate...

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Main Author: Raemdonck, An Van (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill [2013]
In: Religion & gender
Year: 2013, Volume: 3, Issue: 2, Pages: 222-239
Further subjects:B Postcolonial Theory
B Feminism
B Egypt
B politics of knowledge
B female genital cutting
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Summary:This paper deals with questions of the politics of location in knowledge andnorm production within the context of Egyptian feminist activism for abandoningfemale genital cutting practices. It seeks to determine underlying schemesof international campaigning discourse and analyzes how these predicate andcomplicate Egyptian postcolonial activism. It draws on a broad literature studyin addition to fieldwork in Cairo consisting of in-depth interviews with activistsand policy makers. My focus is on the national Task Force against FGMfrom 1994 until 1999 and its subsequent cooptation by the National Council ofChildhood and Motherhood. I argue through the concept of catachresis thatlocation matters in setting the terms of anti-FGC discourse and its relation toreligion.
ISSN:1878-5417
Contains:Enthalten in: Religion & gender
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/18785417-00302005