The Movement against Clitoridectomy and Infibulation in Sudan: Public Health Policy and the Women's Movement

Abstract

[Ellen Gruenbaum is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Connecticut, having received graduate training in a joint program with the Department of Community Medicine in Social Sciences and Health Services.She spent five years in Sudan, during which time she served on the faculty of the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Khartoum and carried out research projects for the Sudanese National Economic and Social Research Council, the F.A.O., and the Ministry of Social Affairs, as well as completing her doctoral research. The title of her dissertation, which she expects to complete in 1982, is “Health Services, Health and Development in Sudan: The Impact on the Gezira Irrigated Scheme.” For the past two years she has been Research Associate in the Department of Community Medicine at the University of the Connecticut School of Medicine, coordinating the Cross‐National Study of Health Systems Program. She is also coeditor of the Comparative Health Systems Newsletter.]