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Book | Leiden University catalogue | WorldCat |
Title: | Beyond the dance: voices of women on female genital mutilation |
Editors: | Barungi, Violet Twongyeirwe Rutagonya, Hilda |
Year: | 2009 |
Pages: | 157 |
Language: | English |
City of publisher: | Kampala |
Publisher: | Femrite Publications |
ISBN: | 9789970700196 |
Geographic terms: | Kenya Uganda |
Subjects: | female circumcision short stories (form) personal narratives (form) poetry (form) |
Abstract: | This book presents Ugandan and Kenyan women's experiences with genital mutilation. Some of the testimonies are in poetic form, others in the form of short personal stories. Contributions: Foreword (Dora Kanabahita Byamukama); Introduction (Violet Barungi); Do not count on me (Betty Kituyi); The woman in me (Bananuka Jocelyn Ekochu); Petals for the Wind (Sharom Lamwaka and Hilda Twongyeirwe Rutagonya); Beyond the music anddance (Lillian Tindyebwa); Chelimo's November (Waltraud Ndagijimana); Crossroads (Cathy Anite); My 'mbasuben' (Betty Kituyi); The cut (Maryam Sheikh Abdi); The intrigue (Hilda Twongyeirwe Rutagonya); Fly beyond the knife (Bananuka Jocelyn Ekochu); Mocked by fate (Lillian Tindyebwa); Saina's story (Cathy Anite). [ASC Leiden abstract] |