T. T. Perry

#Shame and #Circumcision in #Africa (preprint)

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/369884791_Shame_and_Circumcision_in_Africa_preprint

"What is revealed is experiences of shame are largely a consequence of demands of communities of respect where one’s social identity overrides one’s individual identity. ... the uncircumcised as well as those circumcised outside cultural dictates ... would suffer shame on account of having transgressed or overlooked their cultural responsibilities, which effectively delegitimizes their societal belonging."

#GenitalShame

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#Shame and social #identity are about experiencing the self as the object of another's perceptions and expectations.
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The full citation

Yenjela, W. (2023). Shame and Circumcision in Africa. In C. Mun (Ed). Cultural Perspectives on Shame Unities and Diversities. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003348382

#intersectionality #shame #stigma #circumcision #fgm #feminism

Cultural Perspectives on Shame | Unities and Diversities | Cecilea Mun

Each essay in this volume provides a cultural perspective on shame. More specifically, each chapter focuses on the question of how a culture can differentially

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