Susan C. Pearce
"With impressive breadth and depth, Mary Nyangweso has assembled a range of complex sociological, religious, political, legal, and medical perspectives that bear on this practice as it is lived within diaspora communities. Enhancing this overview are cutting-edge examples of individuals and communities that are making concrete progress to end or limit the adverse effects of this practice on girls' and women's health. Her recommendations provide food for thought for those who hope to drive through the polarities of an intensely divisive debate, while simultaneously acknowledging both the integrity of cultures and responsibilities to respect human rights."
Traci C. West
"The issues that this book skillfully analyzes could not be more pressing or culturally and politically sensitive. They inhabit the complicated intersection of concern for immigrant rights, the health and safety of young girls, religious freedom, and women's sexual autonomy. Nyangweso offers a persuasive and unflinchingly vivid argument for breaking the silence about female genital cutting in the United States and the need for more effective strategies to decrease it."
Jacob K. Olupona
"Mary Nyangweso beams a searchlight on the female genital cutting practice in the industrialized societies of the west with significant results of how the practice is affecting their immigrant communities. The book provides robust debates on how this tenacious cultural practice challenges religious, ethical, civic, and human rights conditions in the immigrants' host countries. It portrays how local practices and global ethical demands clash. The solutions Nyangweso suggests will be useful for formulating social policies and necessary intervention for resolving this crisis in the modern West."
