Selected Publications

Provided here are selected publications about different aspects of the problems related to female sexual autonomy around the world. Most publications offer an extensive bibliography of published information. The list is designed to offer a few relevant and important resources.

Babatunde, Emmanuel. Women's Rites Versus Women's Rights: A study of circumcision among the Ketu Yoruba of South Western Nigeria, Africa World Press, (1998).

Baasher, T.A., M.D. Psychological Aspects of Female Circumcision, Regional Adviser on Mental Health, World Health Organization Eastern Mediterranean Region, P.O. Box 1517, Alexandria, Egypt, 1977.

Dirie, Waris and Miller, Cathleen. Desert Flower: The extraordinary journey of a desert nomad, William Morrow, 1998.

Dorkenoo, Efua. Cutting the Rose: Female Genital Mutilation: The practice and its prevention, Minority Rights Publications, (1995).

Hicks, Esther K. Infibulation: female mutilation in Islamic northeastern Africa, Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, NJ, 1993.

Hosken, Fran P. Female Sexual Mutilations: The Facts and Proposals for Action, Women's International Network (WIN) News, Lexington, MA, 1980.

Hosken, Fran P. The Hosken Report: Genital and Sexual Mutilation of Females, Women's International Network (WIN) News, Lexington, MA, 1979.

Kassindia, F. and L. Bashir, Do they hear you when you cry? Delta, 1999.

Lightfoot-Klein, Hanny. Prisoners of Ritual: An odyssey into female genital circumcision in Africa, Harrington Park Press, 1989.

Raymond, Janice G., PhD, and Hughes, Donna M., PhD. Sex Trafficking of Women in the United States: International and Domestic Trends, Coalition Against Trafficking in Women, March 2001.

Toubia, Nahid, M.D. Female Genital Mutilation: A Call for Global Action, 1995.

Toubia, Nahid. M.D. Caring for Women with Circumcision: A Technical Manual for Health Care Providers, 1999.

TOSTAN, Breakthrough in Senegal: The Process that Ended Female Genital Cutting in 31 Villages, USAID, 1999.

Walker, Alice, et al., Warrior Marks: Female Genital Mutilation and the sexual blinding of women, Harvest Books, (1996) Review/order this book

Walker, Alice. Possessing the Secret of Joy, Washington Square Press, 1997.

WHO, Female Genital Mutilation: A joint WHO/UNICEF/UNFPA statement, World Health Organization (WHO), 1997.