Janice Boddy

Janice Boddy is a Canadian anthropologist. As Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto, Boddy specializes in medical anthropology, religion, gender issues, and colonialism in Sudan and the Middle East. She is the author or co-author of ''Wombs and Alien Spirits'' (1990), ''Aman: The Story of a Somali Girl'' (1995), and ''Civilizing Women: British Crusades in Colonial Sudan'' (2007).

In a paper "Womb as oasis: the symbolic context of Pharaonic circumcision in rural Northern Sudan" (''American Ethnologist'', 1982), Boddy argued for a cultural contextualization of female genital mutilation in Africa by those who wish to see the practice abandoned. Provided by Wikipedia