Author | Asma El Dareer |
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Language | English |
Subject | Female genital mutilation in Sudan |
Genre | Non-fiction |
Publisher | Zed Books and Babiker Bedri Scientific Association for Women's Studies |
Publication date | 1982 |
Publication place | United Kingdom |
Pages | 144 (hardback) |
ISBN | 0-8090-7350-1 |
Woman, Why Do You Weep? Circumcision and Its Consequences (1982) is a book by Sudanese physician Asma El Dareer about female genital mutilation in Sudan. Published in London by Zed Press in association with the Babiker Bedri Scientific Association for Women's Studies, the book summarizes research El Dareer conducted on female genital mutilation (FGM) for the medical faculty of the University of Khartoum.
The book includes information from El Dareer's 1977–1981 survey of over 3,000 women in Sudanese states with a high prevalence of the most severe form of FGM.[1] It was the first large-scale survey of women who had undergone the procedures.[2][3][4]