Cut: One Woman's Fight Against FGM in Britain Today
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Cut: One Woman's Fight Against FGM in Britain Today

  1. 272 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Cut: One Woman's Fight Against FGM in Britain Today

About this book

Imagine for a moment that you are 6-years-old and you are woken in the early hours, bathed and then dressed in rags before being led down to an ominous looking tent at the end of your garden. And there, you are subjected to the cruellest cut, ordered by your own mother.

Forced down on a bed, her legs held apart, Hibo Warderewas made to undergo female genital cutting, a process so brutal, she nearly died.

As a teenager she moved to London in the shadow of the Somalian Civil War where she quickly learnt the procedure she had undergone in her home country was not 'normal' in the west. She embarked on a journey to understand FGM and its roots, whilst raising her own family and dealing with the devastating consequences of the cutting in her own life. Today Hibo finds herself working in London as an FGM campaigner, helping young girls whose families plan to take them abroad for the procedure. She has vowed to devote herself to the campaign against FGM.

Eloquent and searingly honest, this is Hibo's memoir which promises not only to tell her remarkable story but also to shed light on a medieval practice that's being carried out in the 21stcentury, right on our doorstep. FGM in the UK has gone undocumented for too long and now that's going to change. Devastating, empowering and informative, this book brings to life a clash of cultures at the heart of contemporary society and shows how female genital mutilation is a very British problem.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title page
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright page
  5. Dedication page
  6. Contents
  7. Prologue
  8. 1. Why Here? Why Now?
  9. 2. Kintir
  10. 3. Gudnin
  11. 4. Butchery
  12. 5. The Aftermath
  13. 6. The Truth at Last
  14. 7. Freedom
  15. 8. Yusuf
  16. 9. Sex
  17. 10. Forgiveness
  18. 11. Family
  19. 12. Halima’s Tears
  20. 13. Spreading the Word
  21. 14. FGM-Practising Communities
  22. 15. A Very British Problem
  23. 16. The Medicalisation of FGM
  24. 17. Moving On
  25. Epilogue
  26. Acknowledgements

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