Uma questão controversa: a circuncisão feminina no Quênia

• Ano de defesa: 2016
• Autor(a) principal: Guerra, Alessandra Gando [UNIFESP]
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP)
• Palavras-chave em Português: Female circumcision; Kikuyu; Missionaries; Kenya; Controversy; Circuncisão feminina; Missionários; Quênia; Controvérsia
• Link de acesso: https://sucupira.capes.gov.br/sucupira/public/consultas/coleta/trabalhoConclusao/viewTrabalhoConclusao.jsf?popup=true&id_trabalho=3672720; https://repositorio.unifesp.br/handle/11600/46825

This thesis aims at analyzing the controversy over female circumcision, which occurred in the 1920s when Protestant missionaries of some denominations came to prohibit their Kikuyu supporters ? majoritary group of population in Kenya ? from practicing it because they considered it to be something "uncivilized" and that was not part of a Christian way of life. We also seek to demonstrate how the arguments present in contemporary discourses, both defending and combating this practice, relate to those used by the actors involved in the "controversy of circumcision", whose summit took place between the late 1920s and mid-1930s .