Responses to W. Njambi's ‘Dualisms and female bodies in representations of African female circumcision: A feminist critique’: Between moral outrage and cultural relativism

Feminist Theory

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 305-311

  Davis, Kathy ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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EID: 34247673966     PISSN: 14647001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1464700104046977     Document Type: Article

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