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A Woman's Odyssey Into Africa: Tracks Across a Life book cover

1st Edition

A Woman's Odyssey Into Africa Tracks Across a Life

By Hanny Lightfoot Klein, Ellen Cole, Esther D Rothblum Copyright 1992
243 Pages
by Routledge

243 Pages
by Routledge
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Here is the intriguing story of one woman’s mid-life flight from her stultified, middle-class, psychologically crippling, and unfulfilled existence into a world of high adventure, danger, hardship, and endurance, which ultimately leads her to autonomy and recognition. In her new book, A Woman’s Odyssey Into Africa, Hanny Lightfoot-Klein chronicles three year-long solo backpacking treks through... Read more
Contents Letter from Kadugli
  •  First Steps
  •  The Flight from Egypt
  •  Garden
  • A Sudanese Proverb: When Allah Created Sudan, Allah Laughed
  • Costi
  • The Barbaric Practice
  • Sex Education
  • Personal Demons
  • Charade at Wad Cherrifay
  • Small Sins
  • Lightfoot
  • El Shadida
  • The Faces of My Beloved
  • Your Death is Always with You
  • Port Sudan Haute Cuisine
  • Stephanie’s Song
  • Requiem for a Goliath Heron
  • Karen Blixen Never Returned to Africa
  • Krystallnacht Revisited

Biography

Hanny Lightfoot-Klein, MA, is an independent researcher underthe auspices of the American Foundation for Gender and GenitalMedicine and Science. Ms. Lightfoot-Klein studied female genitalcircumcision during three year-long treks through Sudan, Kenya,and Egypt; she lived with families of all social levels and geographicareas and interviewed over 400 people in all walks of life inregard to psychological, sociological, historical, sexological, medical,religious, and legal aspects of female circumcision. An avidwriter, Ms. Lightfoot-Klein has published many articles in theJournal o f Obstetric Gynecology and Neo-Natal Nursing, MedicalAspects o f Human Sexuality, Journal o f Psychology and HumanSexuality, Journal o f Sex Research and several British and Germanpublications as well. She is a member of the Association of Womenin Psychology, Society for Sex Therapy and Research, NationalWomen’s Studies Association, and the Society for the ScientificStudy of Sex. Her first book, Prisoners o f Ritual, was also recentlypublished by The Haworth Press, Inc.

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