Janice Boddy

Who is Janice Boddy?

Janice Boddy is a Canadian anthropologist, currently Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. 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, Aman: The Story of a Somali Girl and Civilizing Women: British Crusades in Colonial Sudan.

Janice Boddy defends female genital mutilation in Africa in her paper Womb as oasis: the symbolic context of Pharaonic circumcision in rural Northern Sudan.

Boddy obtained her BA from McGill University, her MA from the University of Calgary and, in 1982, her PhD from the University of British Columbia.