Publications
55
Citations
1,158
Est. group size
—
Recurring co-author estimate
Active years
47
Publishing since 1979
Ellen Gruenbaum is a medical anthropologist whose work centers on female genital cutting/mutilation practices, particularly in Sudan and other African contexts, examined through ethnographic and cross-cultural comparative methods. Her research addresses the cultural, social, and gender dimensions of these practices, as well as debates over international health policy, human rights campaigns, and clinical responses such as deinfibulation. She also writes on related topics including patriarchy, gender inequality, famine, and health in conflict settings.
Publication activity over the last decade has been modest and uneven, with occasional gaps (e.g., 2017, 2021, 2023) followed by small bursts of output, including a recent increase in 2025.
Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026
- Harms of the current global anti-FGM campaign
Journal of Medical Ethics · 2025
- Male and Female Genital Modifications in Anthropological Perspective
Oxford University Press eBooks · 2025
- Book Review: <i>Compromised Bodies: Cultural Imperialism, Agency, and the Ban on “Female Genital Mutilation” in Senegal</i> by Sarah O’Neill Compromised Bodies: Cultural Imperialism, Agency, and the Ban on “Female Genital Mutilation” in Senegal. By O’NeillSarah. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025, 272 pp., $99.95 (cloth); $39.95 (paper); $39.95 (ebook).
Gender & Society · 2025
- Female genital cutting
2024
- Reconsidering the role of patriarchy in upholding female genital modifications: analysis of contemporary and pre-industrial societies
International Journal of Impotence Research · 2022
- Thoughtful comparisons: how do genital cutting traditions change in Sudan? A reply to ‘The prosecution of Dawoodi Bohra women’ by Richard Shweder
Global Discourse · 2022
- Debating Deinfibulation: Why Some Women Resist the WHO Advice and What Clinicians and Researchers Can Do
Archives of Sexual Behavior · 2020
- 4. An ethnographic research in Sudan
Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada · 2020
- A Social History of Food, Famine, and Gender in Twentieth Century Sudan
2019
- However Long the Night: Molly Melching's Journey to Help Millions of African Women and Girls Triumph by Aimee Molloy San Francisco, CA: HarperOne, 2013. Pp. xvii + 252, map, photographs. $14.99 (pbk).
The Journal of Modern African Studies · 2018
- Making the Mark: Gender, Identity and Genital Cutting by Miroslava Prazak Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2016. Pp. xx + 311, map, photographs, diagrams. $29.95 (pbk).
The Journal of Modern African Studies · 2018
- The Twilight of Cutting: African Activism and Life after NGOs by Saida Hodzic Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2017. Pp. 416. $34.95 (pbk).
The Journal of Modern African Studies · 2018
- Vaginal Practices across Cultures: Expressions of Gender Inequalities?
2016
- Snapshot: CONSIDERING THE HUMAN HEALTH CONSEQUENCES OF WAR IN IRAQ
2016
- The Journal of Modern African Studies×3
- Journal of Medical Ethics×1
- International Journal of Impotence Research×1
- Archives of Sexual Behavior×1
- Global Discourse×1
- Jason Reed
Medicine · Purdue University West Lafayette
- Jing Peng
Medicine · The Ohio State University
- Alemayehu F Weldemariam
Social Sciences · Indiana University
- Efthimios Parasidis
Health Professions · The Ohio State University
- Kaitrin Kramer
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · The Ohio State University
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Last updated Jul 20, 2026.
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