Date 04 September 2019
Pages 240
Format cm 15 x 23
Price € 19.90
EAN 9782226440938
Publisher Website www.albin-michel.fr

The Curse of Girlhood

Publisher Albin Michel
COLLECTION Documents
GENRE Essay
What's one of the most dangerous things in the world? Being a girl.

No one can say for sure how many girls are subjected to incest, or killed at birth. 200 million undergo genital mutilation; 60 million suffer sexual violence at school or on their way there. 1 in 9 girls is married before the age of 15; 100,000 fall victim to sex trafficking in the USA alone. Foeticide, infanticide, and sexual abuse underestimated all over the world, mutilations, human trafficking, child marriage, so-called honour killings… Dominique Sigaud reveals the nine-tenths of the iceberg we never normally see.