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Author Mire, Soraya.

Title The girl with three legs : a memoir / Soraya Miré.

Imprint Chicago, Ill. : Lawrence Hill Books, [2011]
Publication Info. ©2011

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Location Call No. Status
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  B MIRE, SORAYA    DUE 04-16-24
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  392.14 MIR    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Biographies  B MIRE SORAYA M    Check Shelf
Description xiv, 386 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 376-378) and index.
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."
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.
Subject Mire, Soraya.
Women -- Somalia -- Biography.
Women -- Somalia -- Rites and ceremonies.
Female genital mutilation -- Social aspects.
Female genital mutilation -- Psychological aspects.
Female genital mutilation -- Prevention.
Biography.
Mire, Soraya. (OCoLC)fst01989283
Female circumcision -- Prevention. (OCoLC)fst00922604
Female circumcision -- Psychological aspects. (OCoLC)fst00922605
Female circumcision -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst00922607
Women. (OCoLC)fst01176568
Women -- Rites and ceremonies. (OCoLC)fst01176933
Somalia. (OCoLC)fst01205351
Genre/Form Memoirs.
Autobiographies. (OCoLC)fst01919894
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
Autobiographies.
ISBN 9781569767139 (cloth)
1569767130 (cloth)
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