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Lives of Circumcised and Veiled Women: A Global-Indian Interplay of Discourses and Narratives

Lives of Circumcised and Veiled Women: A Global-Indian Interplay of Discourses and Narratives

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General Gender StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1032544686
ISBN13: 9781032544687
Publisher: Routledge India
Published: Aug 11 2023
Pages: 230
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.52 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

The book unravels the politics of representation and the process of exoticising women's bodies through the prism of external gaze and knowledge production. It brings out the intricacies of representational discourses around cultural practices of female circumcision (FC)/female genital cutting (FGC) and Islamic veiling. Focusing on crucial international legal texts and national legislation, the book gives an overview of the cultural nuances in FC/FGC and juxtaposes it with the Indian variation, khafz. The author studies the international veiling narratives that conjure up a fractured discourse containing aspects of colonialism, Islamophobia, and Islamic fashion and maps them with the regional variations of Islamic purdah in India. The volume explores the cultural practice of khafz and purdah through narratives in India, portraying how representational factors from international discourses reflect on the Indian context and vice versa.

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