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Afro-Arab Expert Consultation on Legal Tools for the Prevention of Female Genital Mutilation – Stop FGM! Female Genital Mutilation.    
This book gives background on the legal framework concerning FGM, gives information about FGM and religion and informs about various campaigns.
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Boyle, Elizabeth Heger - Female Genital Cutting.
Cultural Conflict in the Global Community. Baltimore/London 2002.  (ISBN 0801870631)    
In this study, the sociologist Elizabeth Boyle examines controversy surrounding FGM from the perspective of the international system, governments and individuals.

Toubia, Nahid/Rahman, Anika - Female Genital Mutilation.
A Practical Guide to Worldwide Laws and Policies. London 2000. (ISBN 18564977)    
The book gives on overview of the history of FGM, as well as its consequences for health. The authors look at the reasons used to justify FGM and present a history of the movement working to combat FGM.

Autobiography/ Novel

Dirie, Waris/Miller, Cathleen - Desert Flower.
London 2001. (ISBN 1860497586)
Waris Dirie writes about here life as a girl from Somalia, becoming a top model and an UN spokeswomen on women’s rights.

Prolongeau, Hubert - Undoing FGM: Pierre Foldes, The Surgeon Who Restores the Clitoris.
Frankfurt/M. 2011. (ISBN 3981386310)    
This study (non-fiction) shows the unique biography of surgeon Pierre Foldes. Readers learn about the experiences of young victims and their efforts to reclaim their identities, sexualities, and birth anatomies.