Career
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). Janice Boddy urges for a cultural contextualization of female genital mutilation in Africa by those who wish to eradicate it, in her paper Womb as oasis: the symbolic context of Pharaonic circumcision in rural Northern Sudan.
Boddy obtained her Bachelor from McGill University, her Master of Arts from the University of Calgary and, in 1982, her Doctor of Philosophy from the University of British Columbia.
