ABSTRACT
As the following interview with Faith Barton, Goran A. Sabir Zangana, and Maria Frederika Malmström will make clear, female genital cutting (FGC) is a very complex issue for international and local actors, scholars, and activists engaged in addressing that practice. Teaching about FGC in a western classroom presents its own challenges, particularly to students who often only have a superficial knowledge of the issue, if any. In this introduction to Faith Barton’s interview with Goran A. Sabir Zangana and Maria Frederika Malmström, I approach the issue of FGC from a pedagogical perspective and offer some strategies that I have used for teaching about FGC to undergraduate students in gender studies classes in the United States.
