UnCut/Voices Press, 2010, Soft cover, Book Condition: Very Good

FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. This book is in as new condition except for writing on inside cover.. It has no tears to the pages and no pages are missing from the book. The spine of the book is still in great condition. The front cover has some bumps and marks. It has signs of previous use but overall is in really nice, tight condition. Items are shipped same day or next business day and are shipped directly from our Australian address. SYNOPSIS: Blood Stains, a best-seller in France, is a Diaspora memoir about growing up in a traditional family in Senegal and emigration to Paris. Its feisty protagonist, Khady, suffers genital mutilation at age seven, a brutal rite that entails lifelong distress, sexual trauma and harrowing childbirths. Married off at thirteen to a man two decades older, the teenager bears five children, and, as a battered wife, blows the whistle on an immigrant community that serves men's interests. Not content to remain a victim, however, the young woman fights for education, earns an independent living and becomes an activist. Her courageous battle against FGM as founder and president of the European Network brings her to the U.N. to urge international support. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Personal Memoirs, Women, Gender Studies, Poverty, Women's Studies; ISBN: . ISBN/EAN: 9783981386301. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 0000974.