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Title:
The girl with three legs : a memoir / Soraya Miré.
ISBN:
9781569769287
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Publication Information:
Chicago, Ill. : Lawrence Hill Books, [2016]

©2011
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xiv, 386 pages) : illustrations
General Note:
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Contents:
A daughter of Africa, 1960-1979. New beginning ; Whispering voices ; Smoke rising from her ears ; White turban man ; Grandmother's shrouding ; The girl with three legs ; 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.
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."
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Interest grade level:
Adult.
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