Janice Boddy

Janice Boddy is a Canadian anthropologist. As Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto,^[1] 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.^[2]