Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 386 pages) : illustrations |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
Description |
text file |
Summary |
A personal story of female genital mutilation. Mire reveals what it means to grow up in a traditional Somali family, where girls' and women's basic human rights are violated on a daily basis. She describes FGM is the ultimate child abuse, a ritual of mutilation handed down from mother to daughter and protected by the word "culture." |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 376-378) and index. |
Contents |
A daughter of Africa, 1960-1979. New beginning -- Whispering voices -- Smoke rising from her ears -- White turban man -- The girl with three legs -- Grandmother's shrouding -- The secret house and the ghost house -- The sound of the scissors -- Betrayal -- Learning to walk again -- Mysteries -- The Sheikha -- Asra's elopement and Mother's pain -- Boots marching to Ogaden -- Arousal transactions -- The Da Vinci hotel -- The overpriced vagina -- An imprisoned wife, 1979-1984. The limping one -- The twisted tongue -- The smoke screen -- The quelling pene -- Incapacitated state -- The kohl eyes one -- Moving away from bedlam -- Time to burst forth -- Grenoble -- The feared mutant -- Distorted body -- The black swan -- Mending the wounds -- Moving away from perdition -- The Diderot Restaurant -- The coffee shop -- The courtesan -- Squeezing the vaginal walls -- Flowers and footsteps -- White sugar -- The four breasts -- Going with the flow -- The dark hole -- Father's illness -- The crushing weight -- A nation of bards, 1984-2011. The Angelinos -- The ecclesiastical path -- Bold moves -- The relinquishment -- The path to fire eyes -- Bloodshed -- Tailing the dream -- Rockefeller -- Achieving the impossible -- Beating you to the punch -- Tremor and the indie pilgrimage -- Breakaway -- Going for the gold -- Father's shrouding -- Bhadrakali -- Lifework -- The sutured lips. |
Access |
Access available to onsite users at SLQ, e-services members and Queensland public library (QPL) account holders. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Mire, Soraya.
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Mire, Soraya. |
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Women -- Somalia -- Biography.
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Women. |
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Somalia. |
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Biographies.
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Women -- Somalia -- Rites and ceremonies.
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Rites and ceremonies. |
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Female genital mutilation -- Social aspects.
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Female genital mutilation -- Social aspects. |
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Female genital mutilation. |
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Female genital mutilation -- Psychological aspects.
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Female genital mutilation -- Psychological aspects. |
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Female genital mutilation -- Prevention.
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Female genital mutilation -- Prevention. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
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Female genital mutilation. |
Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Mire, Soraya. Girl with three legs. Chicago, Ill. : Lawrence Hill Books, ©2011 9781569767139 (DLC) 2011019348 (OCoLC)712124336 |
ISBN |
9781569769287 electronic book |
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1569769281 electronic book |
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9781569769300 electronic book |
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1569769303 electronic book |
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9781569767139 cloth |
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1569767130 cloth |
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