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Female Circumcision, also called Female Genital Cutting or Female Genital Mutilation, refers to a variety of procedures that involve removing or altering the female genitalia. It is a cultural practice in many countries, including Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Jordan, Syria, Algeria, Kenya, Nigeria, Mali, Ivory Coast, Egypt, Mozambique, Sudan, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Dijibouti, Eritrea], Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Indonesia, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Tanzania, and Togo. It is a cross-religious practice.
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Fast Facts:
- Usually NOT a medical procedure
- Generally performed by parents at home
- Done to girls worldwide from newborn to adult
- World Health Organization estimates that 150,000,000 women and girls have undergone the procedure
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Spiegel Online: A Small Revolution in Cairo: Theologians Battle Female Circumcision (2006)
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RT @IntactByDefault:"It's well accepted that female circumcision is mutilation&heinous.So is male circumcision"-James R Roorda, Colorado #i2
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"It's well accepted that female circumcision is mutilaion and heinous. So is male circumcision." - James R Roorda, Colorado #i2
@IntactByDefault | November 10, 2009 11:50 PM -
Story about ASK's documentary: Maasai people willing to stop Female circumcision, Documentary reveals http://ow.ly/B9sC
@ASKenya | November 10, 2009 11:09 PM -
we started out on genital mutilation/female circumcision... and finally landed on the Vagina Monologues as a postmodern feminist work.
@KrisDeLaRash | November 10, 2009 09:40 PM -
@fearraigh really happy you didn't narrate the "female circumcision" piece on F24.
@Rufiwagshistail | November 10, 2009 12:01 PM
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Female Circumcision on Twitter Powered by Twitter
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RT @IntactByDefault:"It's well accepted that female circumcision is mutilation&heinous.So is male circumcision"-James R Roorda, Colorado #i2
@hotmami2008 | November 11, 2009 12:15 AM -
"It's well accepted that female circumcision is mutilaion and heinous. So is male circumcision." - James R Roorda, Colorado #i2
@IntactByDefault | November 10, 2009 11:50 PM -
Story about ASK's documentary: Maasai people willing to stop Female circumcision, Documentary reveals http://ow.ly/B9sC
@ASKenya | November 10, 2009 11:09 PM -
we started out on genital mutilation/female circumcision... and finally landed on the Vagina Monologues as a postmodern feminist work.
@KrisDeLaRash | November 10, 2009 09:40 PM -
@fearraigh really happy you didn't narrate the "female circumcision" piece on F24.
@Rufiwagshistail | November 10, 2009 12:01 PM
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Female Circumcision and the Politics of Knowledge: African Women in Imperialist Discourses - $31.95
Heated debates about and insurgencies against female circumcision are symptoms of a disease emanating from a mindset that produced hierarchies of humans, conquered colonies, and built empires. The loss of colonies and empires does not in a...
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ABC News 20/20 A Healing Journey: Waris Dirie - $9.95
Waris Dirie is a successful high fashion model. She was forced to submit to a barbaric and mutilating ritual, often called female circumcision. What happened to her is still happening to millions of girls around the world, female genital mu...
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Male and Female Circumcision: Medical, Legal, and Ethical Considerations in Pediatric Practice - $255.00
Every year around the world 13.3 million boys and 2 million girls have part or all of their external sex organs cut off. Doctors, parents, and politicians have been misled into thinking that these mutilations are beneficial, necessary an...
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The Female Circumcision Controversy: An Anthropological Perspective - $27.50
To the Western eye, there is something jarringly incongruous, even shocking, about the image of a six-year-old girl being held down by loving relatives so that her genitals can be cut. Yet two million girls experience this each year. Most W...
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Female "Circumcision" in Africa: Culture, Controversy, and Change (Directions in Applied Anthropology: Adaptations & Innovations) - $22.50
This interdisciplinary volume examines the issue of female genital cutting, or "circumcision" and explores the role that scholars can and should play in approaching this issue.
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Female Circumcision on Twitter Powered by Twitter
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RT @IntactByDefault:"It's well accepted that female circumcision is mutilation&heinous.So is male circumcision"-James R Roorda, Colorado #i2
@hotmami2008 | November 11, 2009 12:15 AM -
"It's well accepted that female circumcision is mutilaion and heinous. So is male circumcision." - James R Roorda, Colorado #i2
@IntactByDefault | November 10, 2009 11:50 PM -
Story about ASK's documentary: Maasai people willing to stop Female circumcision, Documentary reveals http://ow.ly/B9sC
@ASKenya | November 10, 2009 11:09 PM -
we started out on genital mutilation/female circumcision... and finally landed on the Vagina Monologues as a postmodern feminist work.
@KrisDeLaRash | November 10, 2009 09:40 PM -
@fearraigh really happy you didn't narrate the "female circumcision" piece on F24.
@Rufiwagshistail | November 10, 2009 12:01 PM
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Female Circumcision on Amazon | View All
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Female Circumcision and the Politics of Knowledge: African Women in Imperialist Discourses - $31.95
Heated debates about and insurgencies against female circumcision are symptoms of a disease emanating from a mindset that produced hierarchies of humans, conquered colonies, and built empires. The loss of colonies and empires does not in a...
Amazon -
Male and Female Circumcision: Medical, Legal, and Ethical Considerations in Pediatric Practice - $255.00
Every year around the world 13.3 million boys and 2 million girls have part or all of their external sex organs cut off. Doctors, parents, and politicians have been misled into thinking that these mutilations are beneficial, necessary an...
Amazon -
Female "Circumcision" in Africa: Culture, Controversy, and Change (Directions in Applied Anthropology: Adaptations & Innovations) - $22.50
This interdisciplinary volume examines the issue of female genital cutting, or "circumcision" and explores the role that scholars can and should play in approaching this issue.
Amazon -
ABC News 20/20 A Healing Journey: Waris Dirie - $9.95
Waris Dirie is a successful high fashion model. She was forced to submit to a barbaric and mutilating ritual, often called female circumcision. What happened to her is still happening to millions of girls around the world, female genital mu...
Amazon -
The Female Circumcision Controversy: An Anthropological Perspective - $27.50
To the Western eye, there is something jarringly incongruous, even shocking, about the image of a six-year-old girl being held down by loving relatives so that her genitals can be cut. Yet two million girls experience this each year. Most W...
Amazon
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Female Circumcision on Amazon | View All
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Male and Female Circumcision: Medical, Legal, and Ethical Considerations in Pediatric Practice - $255.00
Every year around the world 13.3 million boys and 2 million girls have part or all of their external sex organs cut off. Doctors, parents, and politicians have been misled into thinking that these mutilations are beneficial, necessary an...
Amazon -
Female Circumcision and the Politics of Knowledge: African Women in Imperialist Discourses - $31.95
Heated debates about and insurgencies against female circumcision are symptoms of a disease emanating from a mindset that produced hierarchies of humans, conquered colonies, and built empires. The loss of colonies and empires does not in a...
Amazon -
Female "Circumcision" in Africa: Culture, Controversy, and Change (Directions in Applied Anthropology: Adaptations & Innovations) - $22.50
This interdisciplinary volume examines the issue of female genital cutting, or "circumcision" and explores the role that scholars can and should play in approaching this issue.
Amazon -
ABC News 20/20 A Healing Journey: Waris Dirie - $9.95
Waris Dirie is a successful high fashion model. She was forced to submit to a barbaric and mutilating ritual, often called female circumcision. What happened to her is still happening to millions of girls around the world, female genital mu...
Amazon -
The Female Circumcision Controversy: An Anthropological Perspective - $27.50
To the Western eye, there is something jarringly incongruous, even shocking, about the image of a six-year-old girl being held down by loving relatives so that her genitals can be cut. Yet two million girls experience this each year. Most W...
Amazon
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Female Circumcision on Twitter Powered by Twitter
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RT @IntactByDefault:"It's well accepted that female circumcision is mutilation&heinous.So is male circumcision"-James R Roorda, Colorado #i2
@hotmami2008 | November 11, 2009 12:15 AM -
"It's well accepted that female circumcision is mutilaion and heinous. So is male circumcision." - James R Roorda, Colorado #i2
@IntactByDefault | November 10, 2009 11:50 PM -
Story about ASK's documentary: Maasai people willing to stop Female circumcision, Documentary reveals http://ow.ly/B9sC
@ASKenya | November 10, 2009 11:09 PM -
we started out on genital mutilation/female circumcision... and finally landed on the Vagina Monologues as a postmodern feminist work.
@KrisDeLaRash | November 10, 2009 09:40 PM -
@fearraigh really happy you didn't narrate the "female circumcision" piece on F24.
@Rufiwagshistail | November 10, 2009 12:01 PM
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Female Circumcision on Amazon | View All
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Female Circumcision and the Politics of Knowledge: African Women in Imperialist Discourses - $31.95
Heated debates about and insurgencies against female circumcision are symptoms of a disease emanating from a mindset that produced hierarchies of humans, conquered colonies, and built empires. The loss of colonies and empires does not in a...
Amazon -
Male and Female Circumcision: Medical, Legal, and Ethical Considerations in Pediatric Practice - $255.00
Every year around the world 13.3 million boys and 2 million girls have part or all of their external sex organs cut off. Doctors, parents, and politicians have been misled into thinking that these mutilations are beneficial, necessary an...
Amazon -
Female "Circumcision" in Africa: Culture, Controversy, and Change (Directions in Applied Anthropology: Adaptations & Innovations) - $22.50
This interdisciplinary volume examines the issue of female genital cutting, or "circumcision" and explores the role that scholars can and should play in approaching this issue.
Amazon -
ABC News 20/20 A Healing Journey: Waris Dirie - $9.95
Waris Dirie is a successful high fashion model. She was forced to submit to a barbaric and mutilating ritual, often called female circumcision. What happened to her is still happening to millions of girls around the world, female genital mu...
Amazon -
The Female Circumcision Controversy: An Anthropological Perspective - $27.50
To the Western eye, there is something jarringly incongruous, even shocking, about the image of a six-year-old girl being held down by loving relatives so that her genitals can be cut. Yet two million girls experience this each year. Most W...
Amazon
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Female Circumcision News
- Google News: Female Circumcision
- The New York Times: "A Cutting Tradition" (January 20, 2008)
- "Studies have shown that in some parts of Indonesia, female circumcision is more ritualistic — a rite of passage meant to purify the genitals and bestow gender identity on a female child — with a practitioner rubbing turmeric on the genitals or pricking the clitoris once with a needle to draw a symbolic drop of blood. In other instances, the procedure is more invasive, involving what WHO classifies as 'Type I' female genital mutilation, defined as excision of the clitoral hood, called the prepuce, with or without incision of the clitoris itself."
- The New York Times: "Sexual Consequences of Female Initiation Rites in Africa" (January 14, 2008)
- "Our findings suggest, without doubt, that healthy 'mutilated'/'circumcised' women who did not suffer grave long-term complications and who have a good and fulfilling relationship, may enjoy sex and have no negative impact on psychosexual life (fantasies, desire and pleasure, ability to experience orgasm)."
- Time: "An End to Female Genital Cutting?" (January 4, 2008)
- Daily Mail: "The Unspeakable Practice of Female Circumcision That's Destroying Young Women's Lives..." (January 3, 2008)
- "During a highly disturbing, four-month investigation, however, we uncovered evidence that thousands of British-African girls, in towns and cities throughout the country, have been forcibly 'cut'."
- Condé Nast Portfolio: "How to End Female Circumcisions" (December 27, 2007)
- Egypt Today: "Final Cut" (November 2007)
- Cameroon Times: "Law Against Female Circumcision" (November 30, 2007)
- The Vice Prime Minister of Cameroon, Amadou Ali, has assured that the government there is working to make female genital mutilation illegal.
- The Nation: "Kenya Records Drop in Female Cut Cases" (November 22, 2007)
- Arusha Times: " The Link Between Female Genital Mutilation And HIV Transmission" (November 17, 2007)
- BBC News: Female mutilation is 'birth risk' (2006)
- The Christian Science Monitor: Female circumcision surfaces in Iraq (2005)
- New Scientist: Female genital mutilation can cause infertility (2005)
- BBC News: Circumcision survivor's story of hope (2004)
