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Global Feminism at the Local Level: Criminal and Asylum Laws Regarding Female Genital Surgeries

Year: 1999

Type: preprint

Abstract: This essay is one example of a Critical Race Feminist/Critical Race Theorist exploration of the impact of the implementation of international law--or norms through domestic legislation-on women of color at the local level. Global norms that have been hammered out at the international level by feminists of all nationalities are subject to complications and manipulations when these norms are implemented at the local level. While the specifics of these complications and manipulations will, of course, vary from locale to locale, in the United States inconsistencies and hypocrisies are two aspects of the array of reverberations that have been generated by the implementation of the global norm opposing female genital surgeries (FGS) in domestic laws.

Source: SSRN Electronic Journal

Author: Isabelle Gunning

Institution: Southwestern Law School

Language: English

Topic: Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting Issues

Subfield: Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDGs: Peace, justice, and strong institutions, Gender equality, Reduced inequalities

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W3203963312

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Cited by: 12

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