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- Title
Género, cultura e justiça: A propósito dos cortes genitais femininos.
- Authors
CUNHA, MANUELA IVONE
- Abstract
Cultural practices connoted with ethnic "others" and prosecuted as crimes bring new challenges to legislators and judicial systems. While they put forth a tension between culture and liberal universalism, the reaction to them is also vulnerable to the pitfalls induced by simple dichotomies, such as culture/individuals, relativism/universalism, cultural difference/women's rights. Complexifying such dichotomies, I will focus on these pitfalls in the case of female genital cutting and the specific criminalization of those known as Female Genital Mutilation. I will examine in particular the inequalities they mask, the paradoxes they generate, and their possible counter-productive effects.
- Subjects
FEMALE genital mutilation laws; CROSS-cultural differences; INTERNATIONAL cooperation on human rights; UNIVERSALISM (Political science); CULTURE &; globalization; MORAL relativism; CIRCUMCISION; GYNOPLASTY; ETHICS
- Publication
Analise Social, 2013, Vol 48, Issue 209, p834
- ISSN
0003-2573
- Publication type
Article