The Resource The girl with three legs : a memoir, Soraya Miré
The girl with three legs : a memoir, Soraya Miré
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- 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."
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xiv, 386 pages
- Contents
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- A daughter of Africa, 1960-1979. New beginning
- Whispering voices
- Smoke rising from her ears
- White turban man
- The girl with three legs
- Grandmother's shrouding
- 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
- Isbn
- 9781569767139
- Label
- The girl with three legs : a memoir
- Title
- The girl with three legs
- Title remainder
- a memoir
- Statement of responsibility
- Soraya Miré
- Subject
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- trueClitoridectomy -- Personal narratives
- trueClitoridectomy -- Somalia -- Personal narratives
- Female circumcision -- Prevention
- Female circumcision -- Psychological aspects
- Female circumcision -- Social aspects
- trueHuman rights
- Mire, Soraya
- trueRites and ceremonies
- trueSomalia
- trueClitoridectomy
- trueWomen
- Women -- Somalia -- Biography
- Women -- Somalia -- Rites and ceremonies
- trueWomen's rights
- Women's rights -- Somalia
- trueSomalia -- Social conditions
- Language
- eng
- 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."
- Award
- Amelia Bloomer List, 2012
- Biography type
- autobiography
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10035404
- Cataloging source
- IEN/DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Mire, Soraya
- Dewey number
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- 392.1/4
- B
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Mire, Soraya
- Women
- Women
- Female circumcision
- Female circumcision
- Female circumcision
- Label
- The girl with three legs : a memoir, Soraya Miré
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- A daughter of Africa, 1960-1979. New beginning -- Whispering voices -- Smoke rising from her ears -- White turban man -- The girl with three legs -- Grandmother's shrouding -- 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
- Control code
- 836788
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xiv, 386 pages
- Isbn
- 9781569767139
- Isbn Type
- (cloth)
- Lccn
- 2011019348
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) i9781569767139
- (OCoLC)712124336
- Label
- The girl with three legs : a memoir, Soraya Miré
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- A daughter of Africa, 1960-1979. New beginning -- Whispering voices -- Smoke rising from her ears -- White turban man -- The girl with three legs -- Grandmother's shrouding -- 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
- Control code
- 836788
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xiv, 386 pages
- Isbn
- 9781569767139
- Isbn Type
- (cloth)
- Lccn
- 2011019348
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9781569767139
- (OCoLC)712124336
Subject
- trueClitoridectomy -- Personal narratives
- trueClitoridectomy -- Somalia -- Personal narratives
- Female circumcision -- Prevention
- Female circumcision -- Psychological aspects
- Female circumcision -- Social aspects
- trueHuman rights
- Mire, Soraya
- trueRites and ceremonies
- trueSomalia
- trueClitoridectomy
- trueWomen
- Women -- Somalia -- Biography
- Women -- Somalia -- Rites and ceremonies
- trueWomen's rights
- Women's rights -- Somalia
- trueSomalia -- Social conditions
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