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Mutilating Khalid

Mutilating Khalid

The Symbolic Politics of Female Genital Cutting

ISBN-13: 9781569023327

Author(s): Charles G Steffen

Subjects: Cultural Studies, GTS, JBCC

Publisher: Africa World Press

Publisher Imprint: Africa World Press

Publication Date: 17-02-2011

Format: Paperback / softback

Availability: In stock

£29.95

About the book

In 2006, a suburban Atlanta jury convicted Khalid Misri Adem, a 31-year-old Ethiopian immigrant, of two counts of aggravated assault and cruelty to children for allegedly circumcising his daughter when she was two years old. However, the trial against Khalid Adem was far from uncontroversial. Mutilating Khalid explores the symbolic politics that surrounded the Adem case, showing how prosecutors, judges, reporters, politicians and activists set out to mould the public's image of Khalid Adem and to appropriate his symbolic values for their own particular purposes.