Challenging Gender Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa: Is Mutilated to Circumcised as Female is to Male?

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Challenging Gender Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa: Is Mutilated to Circumcised as Female is to Male?

A lecture by medical anthropologist Fuambai Ahmadu
Co-sponsored by the African Studies Program & the Anthropology Department

What is the relevance of female genital surgeries in the context of gender equality? Women’s sexuality? Cultural relativism?

Wednesday, December 2
7pm WGR 211

Accommodation requests related to a disability should be made to lecturefund@georgetown.edu by Monday, November 30th. A good faith effort will be made to fill requests after November 30th.