Symbolic Gender Politics, Religious Group Identity, and the Decline in Female Genital Cutting in Minya, Egypt

Social Forces

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 1063-1090

  Yount, Kathryn M ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 1842632404     PISSN: 00377732     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/sof.2004.0062     Document Type: Review

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